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THE  "  LOIL"  LEGISLATURE 


ITS  RIDICULOUS  DOINGS,  AND  NONSENSICAL  SAYINGS. 


HELD  IN  MONTGOMERY,  JULY   AND   AUGUST,   1868. 


"YijU-i^^-^  ^'^ 


Mr.  Speker — I  goes  agin  dis  here  bill,  kase  it  mout  git  up  a  war 
twixt  de  extending  races  ;  darfore,  I'se  agi^t.— -ffo«.  Mr.  Lewis. 


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MONTGOMERY : 

R.   W.   OFFUTT   <fc   CO.,   PUBLISHERS. 

1868.  "■  •" 

UNIVERSITY  OF  N  CAT  CHAPEL  HILL 


00018068378 


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IIJJ^JK, 


Entered  according  to  the  Act  of  Congress,  in  the  year  one  thousand  eight 
hundred  and  eixty-eight,  by  BENJAMIN  H.  SCREWS,  in  the  Clerk's  offiee  of 
the  District  Court  of  the  United  States,  for  the  Middle  District  of  Alabama. 


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PREFACE. 

Trutli  is  stranger  than  fiction.  ^'^ 

If  Artemus  Ward,  Simon  Suggs,  or  Bill  Arp  could  have 
seen  the  different  persons  who  styled  themselves  "  Mem- 
bers of  the  Alabama  Legislature," — if  those  famous  au- 
thors could  have  witnessed  the  appearance,  ignorance,  and 
depravity  of  those  so-called  legislators,  they  would  have 
smiled  at  their  noted  works  of  fiction. 

But  the  writer  hereof  publishes  the  following  pages  in 
no  spirit  of  ridicule — in  no  imitation  spirit — in  no  partizan 
spirit, — but  solely  in  justice  to  the  truth  of  history. 


^■ii^jh.  fliid)  Txafj;; : 


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to  '(;}iY.'tTqol) 


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CHAPTER  I. 


The  whole  country  is  acquainted  with  the  circumstances 
which  brought  about  the  assembling  of  this  bastard  Legis- 
lature, 'iiihmi  oi  fiitjfij  hliii 

The  radical  Congress  submitted  to  us  an  ^i«us  docu- 
ment for  our  ratification.  It  was  called  a  Oons^^i<J)n,  and 
its  provisions  were  so  outrageous,  so  ungaUant,  so  murder- 
ous, so  debasing,  that  the  white  men  and  sensible  negroes 
spurned  it  with  unfeigned  horror.  The  radical  Congress 
and  their  agents,  the  carpet-bag  *'CIonvention,"  pledged 
their  sacred  honors  and  the  faith  of  the  United  States  gov- 
ernment that  if  this*  so-called  Constitution  was  not  voted 
for  by  a  majority  of  the  registered  voters  of  Alabama,  it 
would  be  considered  legally  and  justly  defeated.  The  elec- 
tion came,  and  the  "Constitution"  was  defeated  by  fourteen 
thousand  majority! 

Hungry  carpet-baggers  and  scallawags,  for  whom  the  ne- 
groes had  voted  to  hold  the  offices,  immediately  dispatched 
_  a  loil  embassy  to  the  national  capital.  This  loil  embassy 
laid  before  Thad,  Stevens,  Beast  Butler,  and  the  other  lead- 
ers of  the  radical  wing  of  Congress,  a  horrible  list  of  hes, 
to  the  effect  that  "  rebels  kept  the  negroes  from  the  poUs — 
that  a  flood  was  prevailing  throughout  the  State  during  the 
whole  five  days  of  the  election — that  many  loyal  people 
were  drowned  in  their  efforts  to  reach  the  polls — that  some 
were  killed  by  lightning — that  the  managers 'played  off' 
on  the  party,  and  that  a  fair  count  would  show  a  startling 
amount  of  fraud  perpetrated  by  bold  rebels  and  recreant 
managers." 


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This  unfclusliing  falsehood  was  certified  to  by  carpet- 
bagger B.  W.  Norris,  of  Skowhegan,  Maine,  whose  patri- 
otism and  honor  were  reckoned  by  the  salary  and  mileage 
of  a  congressman ;  by  carpet-bagger  J.  C.  Keffer,  who  was 
seeking  the  salary  attached  to  the  office  of  Commissioner 
of  Resources ;  by  carpet-bagger  Griffin,  a  mean,  cadaver- 
ous looking  creature,  who  was  aspiring  to  be  the  negroes' 
Senator  in  Congress ;  by  scallawag  John  Hardy,  who  was 
in  need  of  the  public  printing  of  the  bastard  Legislature ; 
and  last,  but  not  least,  by  scallawag  Joshua  Morse,  whom 
-the  people  of  Choctaw  county  had  honored  in  other  and 
better  days,  but  who  deserted  them  to  be  Attorney-General 
of  the  nggro  government  of  Alabama. 

The^^JRlows  have  all  received  their  rewards  for  their 
violation  of  the  law  of  God  and  man — "  thou  shalt  not  lie." 
The  radical  Congress  issued  the  edict,  "Alabama  having 
complied  with  the  reconstruction  laws  of  Congress,  having 
elected  loyal  persons  to  fill  the  offices,  and  having  fairly 
ratified  the  new  Constitution,  is  entitled  to  representation 
in  Congress  and  a  return  to  the  sitsterhood  of  States,  so 
soon  as  the  new  Legislature  assembles  and  ratifies  Article 
XIV  of  the  United  States  Constitution." 

The  new  Governor's  proclamation  directed  that  the  Legis- 
lature should  meet  on  the  13th  of  July.  This  was  an  in-  - 
terim  of  two  weeks  from  the  date  of  the  proclamation,  and 
some  of  the  carpet-bag  officers  were  highly  iiidignant  at 
the  Governor  for  allowing  so  much  time,  fearing  that  Con- 
gress would  adjourn  before  the  Legislature  would  meet. 
Ghawles  Buckley,  a  floating  Yankee  preacher  who  used  Gov- 
ernment funds  for  his  private  purposes,  was  very  indignant. 
He  approached  his  Governor  in  a  highly  disrespectful  and 
indignant  manner,  and  said  :  "  Sir,  you  have  caused  me  to 
be  the  loser  of  seven  thousand  dollars.  You  have  post- 
poned the  meeting  of  the  Legislature  ten  days  longer  than 
is  necessary ;  Congress  will  adjourn  before  I  can  get  to 
Washington  and  draw  my  pay."  Buckley  only  showed  that 
pay,  PAY,  PAY,  was  the  ruling  cause  of  the  patriotism 


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y.. 


evinced  by  the  depraved  creatures  who  were  so  clamorous 
to  be  installed  in  the  various  ofl&ces,  for  which  honesty  and 
genuine  patriotism  had  defeated  them. 

After  the  proclamation  dl  Governor  Smith  convening  the 
Legislature  was  issued,  the  so-called  members  who  had 
been  lying  on  their  oars  in  pleasurable  anticipation,  lost  but 
little  time  in  hurrying  to  Montgomery.  Two  days  before 
the  Legislature  met,  a  large  majority  had  arrived.  They 
did  not  show  themselves  on  the  streets.  They  evidently 
felt  like  bogus  Lustitutions,  and  were  ashamed  to  meet  hon- 
est people  on  the  public  thoroughfares.  The  most  of  them 
engaged  cheap  board  at  low  down  brothels,  or  with  radical 
negroes.  So  heartily  mean  did  many  of  these  fellows  feel, 
that  they  would  not  give  to  a  decent  man  th5|phance  to 
make  advances  to  them. 


CHAPTEB  II. 


The  "  Legislature"  met  on  the  13th,  and  a  cursory  glance 
at  the  "assembled  wisdom"  would  have  convinced  an  Afri- 
can fresh  from  his  native  land  that  Alabama  was  hard  run 
for  law  makers.  It  was  a  conglomerated  mass  of  depravity, 
ignorance,  ugliness,  cowardice,  littleness  and  filth.  Only 
here  and  there  was  a  true  man,  who  bore  a  white  man's 
heart  and  a  clear  conscience.  The  galleries  were  literally 
packed  with  loyal  blacks,  men,  women,  children,  dogs,  <fec. 
The  superior  essences  of  "night-blooming  cereus"  and  "love 
among  the  roses"  floated  down  in  the  hall  of  the  house, 
aijd  strikingly  contrasted  with  the  old  time  odors  of  rebel 
ladies. 

The  yards  were  packed  with  happy  big  and  little  nigs, 
and  fair  colored  ladies,  with  hunches  of  ginger-bread  in 
their  pockets  or  hands,  all  yelling  and  singing  in  glad  de- 
light. The  front  entrance,  the  portico  and  steps  were  used 
as  hotels  on  the  "  European  plan,"  and  a  thousand  weary 


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"  loilists/  were  driving  away  all  thoughts  of  rebels  in  the 
arms  of  loyal  Morpheus. 

The  Senate  was  called  to  order  by  Lieut.  Governor  Ap- 
plegate,  ex  officio  President  of  fhe  Senate.  He  hails  from 
the  State  of  Ohio,  and  squatted  in  Alabama  after  the  close 
of  the  war  in  search  of  spoils,  like  the.  hundreds  of  wolves 
who  are  associated  with  him  in  the  mutual  robbing  society. 
This  Applegate  is  an  ignorant,  illiterate  fellow,  who  man»- 
aged  to  work  his  way  up  to  the  second  place  in  the  carpet- 
bag government  by  abusing  good  men,  and  flattering  ig-- 
norant  negroes.  The  following  letters  will  show  how  highly 
educated,  unassuming  and  clever  is  the  Lieut.  Governor,  the 
heir  apparent  to  the  Gubernatorial  Chair  : 
c)j  <)t-MJx;u.|^;  HuNTsviLLE,  Ala.,  Dec.  24th,  1865. 

Mrs.  Jacob  Thompson: 

You  perhaps  recolect  that  on  the  retreat  of  Gen  Grants 
Army  during  the  winter  of  1862  that  Gen  McPherson  oc- 
cupied your  House  as  Hd  Qrs  for  17th  A  Corps  &  that 
when  your  Lann  was  Evacuated  by  the  federals  He  left  a 
number  of  His  Body  Guard  to  guard  your  House,  to  pre- 
vent its  being  burnt  I  hapened  to  be  one  of  that  Guard  on 
that  occasion  I  recolect  you  treated  me  kindly,  together 
with  comrades  A  few  days  Later  I  passed  through  your 
place  in  charge  of  seven  confederate  prisoners  under  com- 
mand of  Lieut.  Gile  You  gave  me  a  letter  to  carry  to  Col. 
Jake  Thompson  at  Grenada  Yeu  Showed  us  your  corn 
pile  to  feed  our  horses  &  took  us  into  your  parler  <fe  ordered 
Dinner  for  "Yank"  and  "Keb"  alike  &  that  at  a  time  when 
you  wer  in  no  danger  from  federal  haynets  for  those  kind 
acts  the  promptings  of  your  own  generous  heart  I  feel  hke 
making  you  Some  return 

During  the  occupation  of  your  house  by  our  army  there 
was  many  things  taken  by  the  soldiers  among  the  many 
was  the  Private  papers  of  your  husban  consisting  of  Deeds 
Patents,  Plats  of  lands  amounting  to  Several  hundred  thou- 
sand acres  of  land  together  with  a  number  of  valuable 
notes  &  other  papers  Books  describing  the  lands  entered 


sold  &  unsold  these  papers  are  yet  in  Existence  &  i  Kno 
who  has  possession  of  them 

if  you  desire  to  recover  them  you  can  write  to  me  at  th»^ 
place  &  tell  me  how  valuable  they  are  to  you  as  the  party 
who  has  them  thinks  they  are  very  valuable  &  will  want  a 
large  reward  for  them  but  i  think  I  can  get  possession  of 
them 

I  have  the  honor  to  be 

your  Friend  &  well  wiSher 

A.  J.  Applegate. 


-ki-  [letter.]  ;j /ija  uo- . 

Mr.  Macon  Thompson 

Si.  Your  favor  of  Jan  19th  was  rec  by  me  &  itg  contents 
referred  to  my  friend  &c  He  authorized  me  to  say  to  you 
that  if  you  want  the  papers  referred  to  worse  than  you 
want  ten  (10)  thousand  dollars  you  can  have  them  I  was 
informed  while  in  Cincinnati  the  other  day  that  there  was 
an  order  from  Washington  for  them  all  to  be  turn  over  to 
the  government  but  he  had  not  seen  the  order  &  requested 
me  to  do  as  I  have  stated.     * 

You  spoke  of  my  insulting  letter  you  must  remember  my 
Dear  Sir  that  men  who  live  in  glass  houses  must  not  throw 
stones. 

In  my  last  I  forgot  to  speak  of  your  Exelant  &  very  kind 
Lady  I  take  this  opertunity  of  correcting  that  Error  for 
Her  kindness  I  have  Ever  been  thankful 

if  you  conclude  to  except  the  conditions  herein  named 
you  can  Express  the  money  or  Send  me  a  Check  on  Cin- 
cinnati or  New  York  and  if  this  does  not  suit  you  teU  me 
what  will 

immediately  upon  the  receipt  of  said  amount  or  as  soon 
as  it  can  be  mad  your  papers  will  be  sent  to  you 
I  have  the  honor  Sir 

to  remain  your  humble  Svt 

A.  J.  Applegate. 

The  only  evidence  that  the  public  has  that  Applegate 


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was  a  thief,  is  the  following  receipt  which  acknowledges 
that  the  papers  fell  into  Ms  hands  during  the  war,  and  not 
into  the  hands  of  the  man  he  "K  nose" : 

[eeceipt.] 
Jacob  Thompson    ^  ^    ^   internal  J    ,  ^-   J-  Applegate 
vs  r   "R       St  1     hereby  Acknowl- 

A.  J.  Applegate.  )  ^^"  ^^P-  ^  edges  to  have  re^ 
ceived  of  Jacob  Thompson,  by  the  hands  of  Walker,  Brick- 
ell  &  Lewis,  three  hundred  ($300)  dollars  for  certain  pat- 
ents, papers,  note  book,  notes,  deeds,  &c.,  which  fell  into 
the  hands  of  the  said  Applegate  during  the  war,  and  are 
now  returned  to  said  Thompson  through  Walker,  Brickell 
&  Lewis,  on  payment  of  the  aforesaid  three  hundred  dol- 
lars, June  14,  1868. 

[Signed]  -  A.  J.  APPLEGATE. 

Twenty-seven  Senators  answered  to 'their  names,  as  fol- 
lows :  Barr,  late  of  Ohio,  Bromberg,  late  of  Germany, 
Buckley,  (brother  to  Cliawles)  late  of  New  York,  Coon,  late 

of  Iowa,  Farden,  late  of  Ohio,  Foster,  — ,  Hayes,  of 

Alabama,  Hinds,  late  of  Ohio,  Jones,  of  Alabama,  Mabry, 
of  Alabama,  Mahan,  of  Alabama,  Martin,  late  of  Georgia 
Penitentiary,  Oliver,  late  of»North  Carolina,  Pennington, 
late  of  North  Carolina,  Richards,  late  of  Vermont,  Royal, 
buck  negro,  Sibley,  late  of  Massachusetts,  Whitney,  late  of 
Iowa,  Wise,  late  of  Ohio,  Wyman,  late  of  Pennsylvania, 
Yordy,  late  of  Ohio,  Morton,  Lentz,  McAfee,  Sanford  and 
Stow,  rough  old  natives  who  didn't  know  any  better. 

The  learned  Lieut.  Governor  had  a  tedious  and  awkward 
time  in  getting  his  loil  machine  to  grinding ;  but  with  the 
assistance  of  home  scalawags  who  were  in  search  of  offices, 
the  Senate  was  finally  organized  after  a  fashion.  If  the 
learned  Lieutenant  Governor  had  kept  his  mouth  closed, 
and  shown  more  respect  for  the  English  grammar,  the  first 
day's  session  of  the  loil  Senate  would  have  passed  off  tol- 
erably w^ll. 

The  loil  House  of  Representatives  presented  a  scene  of 
grandeur  and  subHmity  beyond  precedent  and  beyond  de- 
scription.    It  consisted  of  one  hundred^  members,  twenty- 


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six  of  whom  were  negroes,  sixty-seven  carpet-baggers  and 
scallawags,  and  seven  total  white  men.  The  seven  whites 
were  acquainted  with  parhamentary  proceedings,  and  to 
them  is  due  the  credit  of  getting  the  hybrid  concern  in 
order.  The  radical  members  of  this  body  were  the  scum 
of  the  localities  in  which  they  pretended  to  live,  and,  as  a 
body,  the  loil  House  was  not  even  equal  to  the  loil  Senate, 
in  point  of  respectabihty  and  intelligence. 


-'.livj'^il 


THE  HON.  SENATOR  FROM  BULLOCK  IN  HIS  SEAT. 


The  two  houses  organized  by  electing  twice  the  usual 
number  of  officers,  thus  giving  away  the  white  people's 
hard  earnings  as  a  vote  of  thanks  to  negroes  and  scalla- 
wags. The  learned  Lieut.  Governor  proposed  that  the 
concern  proceed  to  ratify  the  14th  article  of  the  Constitu- 
tion of  the  United  States,  after  which  the  "Ginral"  would 
send  up  some  big  guns,  and  all  hands  would  have  a  Httle 
fun  in  the  way  of  seeing  the  big  guns  shoot,  and  other  "loil" 
demonstrations. 


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The  vote  on  the  ratification  was  unanimous  in  the  Sen- 
ate, [Mr.  Worthy  not  being  in  the  city.]  In  the  House, 
there  were  six  votes  against  it,  to-wit ;  Reeves  of  Cherokee, 
Neville  of  Monroe,  Moore  of  Coffee,  Hubbard  of  Pike, 
Mastin  of  Crenshaw,  and  Hurt  of  Jackson.  The  remarks 
of  Mr.  Neville  on  this  outrageous  occasion  had  the  true 
Spartan  ring.     Mr.  Neville  said : 

"  I  vote  against  this  resolution,  because  it  is  unjust,  dic- 
tatorial, and  calculated  to  create  discord  for  years  to  come. 
It  degrades  the  most  honest,  intelligent  and  honored  sons 
of  Alabama.  It  proscribes  intellect  and  virtue  that  repre- 
sented the  State  in  the  past.  It  cuts  them  away  from  all 
participation  in  the  future  in  a  government  with  which  they 
have  been  identified  for  a  life  time.  It  substitutes  for  them 
a  class  of  people  utterly  unfit  to  legislate  for,  or  to  repre- 
sent the  State.  Not  to  adopt  it  is  necessary  to  carry  out 
that  spirit  of  harmony  and  fraternal  regard,  without  which 
no  country  is  happy  or  prosperous.  This  amendment,  in- 
stead of  offering  to  our  blood-reeking  land  the  olive  branch, 
offers  hatred,  proscription  and  internal  feud." 

When  the  vote  of  both  houses  was  announced,  the  learned 
Lieut.  Governor  exclaimed  at  the  top  of  his  loyal  voice, 
"  Bully  for  Alabama!"— the  "Ginral"  [Kuklux  Shepherd] 
had  hauled  up  his  loil  guns,  and  they  boomed  forth  the 
news  of  the  temporary  destruction  of  Hberty  and  the  white 
race,  and  the  ascension  of  ignorance,  vice,  scallawagism, 
scoundrelism  and  all  the  other  mean  isms  and  seisms  with 
which  our  language  is  acquainted.  "  '■*  '^*'  ^ 

The  white  loilists  grasped  each  other's  hands,  and  looked 
lovingly  into  each  other's  loil  eyes ;  the  negro  members  ex- 
claimed, "Oh,  de  happy  day  are  come,  tank  de  Lord ;"  the 
colored  girls  started  the  patriotic  hymn,  "Oh,  lah,  darkies, 
aint  you  happy;"  and  in  the  midst  of  much  loil  enthusiasm, 
the  carpet-bag  Legislature  adjourned  until  next  day,  with 
the  proud  consciousness  that  it  was  a  huge  affair.  Buck- 
ley, Norris,  Kellogg  and  the  other  carpet-bag  Congressmen 
started  immediately  to  Washington,  and  reached  there  in 


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tae»  fn'brff  iQ'jTHu 


time  to  draw  their  seven  thousand  dollars,  and  stationery 
enough  to  last  the  balance  of  time. 


CHAPTEK  m. 


The  second  day  of  the  session  was  opened  in  each  house 
with  a  gratuitous  prayer  by  a  "loU"  member.  After  the 
prayer,  Carraway,  mulatto,  moved  that  the  House  elect  a 
Mobile  negro  permanent  Chaplain,  and  pay  him  four  dol- 
lars a  day  for  his  useless  services.  The  old  negro  was 
elected,  and  he  commenced  offering  up  a  second  prayer. 
While  he  was  praying,  a  member  propounded  to  himself 
the  following  conundrum  :  Why  is  the  Chaplain's  head  Hke 
the  Capital? 

Because  it  has  a  great  many  members  in  it. 


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After  the  prayer,  the  conundrum  and  answer  were  sent 
to  the  Clerk's  desk,  which  the  Clerk  mistook  for  a  loil  bill, 
and  read  aloud,  much  to  the  amusement  of  those  who  had 
sense  enough  to  know  that  it  was  only  a  joke. 

In  the  Senate,  a  long  and  interesting  debate  was  had  on 
the  praying  business.  Some  of  the  members  said  there 
was  no  earthly  use  in  having  prayer ;  others  said  it  was 
highly  necessary,  and  that  the  carpet-bag  party  would  never 
succeed  without  prayer ;  others  said  they  could  stand  the 
praying,  but  didn't  want  it  to  cost  the  members  anything ; 
the  religiously  inclined  said  the  State  would  pay  the  dama- 
ges ;  one  Foster  said  the  city  ministers  would  do  the  pray- 
ing, and  be  glad  of  the  honor,  as  such  had  always  been  the 
^custom;  a  sharper  said  "nary  time,"  the  city  ministers 
would  never  pray  for  such  a  concern  as  that — it  would  do 
no  good.  He  struck  the  nail  on  the  head  exactly,  and 
finally  they  elected  a  Chaplain  out  of  the  loil  party,  and 
he  prayed  for  them  long  and  loud. 

A  resolution  was  passed  both  houses  providing  that 
the  Sergeant-at- Arms  show  seats  to  all  ladies  who  might 
visit  the  "  Legislature."  This  was  a  popular  lick,  and  the 
"ladies"  continued  to  come  in  droves— big,  greasy,  black 
colored  ladies,  who  could  find  no  better  employment  in  the 
daytime. 

The  second  day's  performance  was  extremely  amusing, 
but  utterly  without  interest  or  importance.  Several  local 
bills  were  introduced.  Messrs.  Reeves  and  Hubbard  ex- 
plained to  the  House  performers  the  different  routines  a 
bill  must  tal^e  before  it  could  become  a  law,  and  they  man- 
aged to  behave  very  well,  by  allowing  the  few  white  men 
undisputed  control  of  things. 

In  the  Senate,  the  learned  Lieut.  Governor  kept  up  his 
tirade  of  abuse  upon  the  English  Grammar,  which  created 
a  great  deal  of  fun  for  lobbyists.  After  the  third  or  fourth 
day,  we  got  used  to  his  "grammar,"  and  ceased  to  be 
amused  at  anything  he  said.     He  was  at  least  the  peer  in 


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education  of  the  negro  Senator  and  the  negro  members  in 
the  House.     Give  the  devil  his  due. 

It  was  noticed  that  the  home  scalawags  were  lying  around 
the  capitol  in  goodly  numbers ;  thej  were  in  search  of  any 
thing,  they  could  get,  and  to  accomplish  their  purposes 
<3idn't  mind  calling  the  nigger  members  "  Mister,  Colonel," 
&c.  They  continued  to  be  pohte  and  servile  to.  the  circus 
actors  until  the  last  day  of  the  session.  uu>-.)  ijim  a«otj[  qfnjr. 


NIGGER,  SCALLAWAG.  CARPETBAGGER  )1 

Tjbe  scallawag  is  the  meanest  of  all  earthly  creations. 
Unlike  the  carpet-bagger,  he  is  native,  which  is  so  much 
the  worse.  Once  he  was  respected  in  his  circle  ;  his  head 
was  level,  and  he  could  look  his  neighbor  in  the  face.  Now, 
possessed  of  the  itch  of  office  and  the  salt  rheum  of  radi- 
calism, he  is  a  mangy  dog,  shnking  through  the  aUeys, 
haunting  the  Governor's  office,  defiling  with  tobacco  juice 
the  steps  of  the  capitol,  stretching  his  lazy  carcass  in  the 
sun  on  the  square,  or  the  benches  of  the  Mayor's  Court. 


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He  waiteth  for  the  troubling  of  the  political  waters,  to 
the  end  that  he  may  step  in  and  be  healed  of  his  itch  by 
the  ointment  of  office.  For  office  he  "  bums"  as  a  toper 
"  bums"  for  the  satisfying  dram.  For  office,  yet  in  pros- 
pective, he  hath  bartered  principles  and  respectabihty ; 
hath  abandoned  business  and  ceased  to  labor  with  his 
hands,  but  employs  his  feet  kicking  out  boot-heels  against 
lamp  post  and  corner  curb,  while  discussing  the  question  of 
office.  ^  ^  I  y/" 

The  normal  condition  of  the  unofficed  scallawag  is  seedy. 
Mayhap,  there  hangs  about  him  some  remnant  of  grey 
clothes  that  floats  him  a  remainder  of  the  Confederate  era, 
before  he  fell  from  political  grace,  and  was  changed  into  a 
scallawag.  His  obsequious  meekness  and  self-abasement 
in  the  presence  of  the  power  that  confers  office,  causes  the 
gorge  to  rise  in  disgust  at  the  recreancy  of  human  nature 
as  developed  in  a  full  blown  scalawag. 

Eager  to  belie  the  past,  that  he  may  grasp  office  in  the 
future,  he  hath  curses  handy  for  the  cause  he  once  espoused, 
and  lauds  the  loyalty  of  himself  in  season.  Where  half  a 
dozen  are  gathered  in  discussion,  there  is  to  be  found  our 
scallawag  in  their  midst,  conspicuous  because  of  his  dirty 
linen  duster  and  broad-brimmed  hat.  The  vocabulary  of 
his  knowledge-box  is  very  contracted,  and  he  sings  but  few 
tunes,  but  these  are  loyal  ones.  In  his  estimation,  every 
feature  of  Eeconstruction  is  altogether  lovely ;  the  negro 
eminently  fit  for  a  voter,  but  not  to  hold  office.  That  is 
reserved  for  scallawags  like  himself. 

The  scallawag  rewarded  with  office  blooms  into  a  new 
existence.  He  puts  on  good  clothes,  kicks  his  mildewed 
duster  to  the  devil,  shaves  up,  trims  his  stragghng  beard, 
and  oils  his  matted  locks  of  hair.  If  he  is  boarding,  he 
moves  into  a  hired  house,  drives  a  hired  horse,  and  begins 
to  splurge.  To  see  the  sneers  of  the  unrewarded  "  bum- 
mers," his  only  response  is  the  elevation  of  his  nasal  pro- 
tuberance. He  is  an  office-holder,  and  provided  he  can 
give  bond  as  required,  he  sticks ;  if  he  can  not,  he  is  offi- 


IT 

<aally  Mcked,  and  relapses  into  Jiis  original  condition  of  a 
scallawag  again.  ntntithiA.  Jo  fl'tsitio 

The  tribe  of  scallawags  is  not  numerous,  but  its  nielfai- 
bers  are  very  pestiferous,  like  the  frogs  of  Egypt,  that 
crawled  into  the  ovens  and  kneading  troughs  of  the  people. 
We  long  to  write  the  obituary  of  the  last  of  the  scaUawags 
who  officiated  at  our  capitol. 

The  carpet-bag  and  scallawag  county  officers  elect  be- 
came very  restive  for  a  bUl  to  be  passed  authorizing  their 
immediate  induction  into  office.  The  star\ing  creatures 
were  hungry  and  seedy,  and  represented  that  they  oould 
hold  out  but  a  day  or  two  longer.  The  aspirants  for  the 
nigger  IT.  S.  Senatorship  were  working  faithfully  about  this 
time.  Griffin  and.  Warner  took  to  their  loyal  bosoms  the 
kinky  headed,  sweet  scented  nigger  boys,  and  dined  and 
wined  them  till  the  niggers  imagined  that  it  was  a  glorious 
thing  to  be  a  **  legislatur  man."  Warner  would  wine  them 
in  an  ante-chamber  and  dine  them  at  old  Caroline's  lunch 
table  in  the  Capitol  rotunda.  Griffin  didn't  hesitate  to 
throw  his  loil  arms  around  their  necks,  no  matter  how  loud 
they  smelled,  nor  how  obnoxious  the  odor.  Lewis,  Spen- 
cer, Humphries,  sly  Coon,  and  the  other  aspirants  for  the 
fat  office,  did  their  duty  well,  and  all  beHeved  that  the  col- 
ored troops  would  fight  nobly.  During  this  interesting 
campaign,  the  fellow  Warner  of  Ohio,  who  claimed  to  rep- 
resent Montgomery  county  in  the  Legislature,  and  who  was 
as  officious  as  he  was  arrogant,  invented  a  new  method  of 
electioneering.  Every  desk  in  the  Capitol  was  studded 
with  a  pamphlet  containing  "  Reasons  why  Gen.  WiUard 
Warner  should  be  sent  to  the  United  States  Senate."  These 
"reasons"  consisted  in  extravagant  extracts  from  radical 
papers  in  Ohio,  and,  therefore,  were  good  reasons  why  this 
creatute  should  represent  Alabama  in  the  United  States 
Senate. 

-  It  was  dog  eat  dog  between  Griffin,  Spencer  and  Warner, 
and  the  balance  of  them;  but  of  the  <?roAY4>  ^&^-  Peter 


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Goode,  negro,  could  more  truthfully  have  sworn,  "  I  am  a 
citizen  of  Alabama." 

Warner  aud  Spencer  were  elected  on  the  second  Tuesday 
of  the  session,  and  put  out  for  Washington  post-haste  the 
moment  after  their  election  was  announced.  They  were 
sworn  in  on  Sunday,  Congress  having  voted  to  adjourn  on 
Monday.  They  made  out  their  pay  bill  for  $7000,  but  were 
paid  only  $400,  much  to  their  chagrin  and  disappointment. 
The  capet-bagger  Spencer  is  shown  up  in  the  following  ex- 
tract from  the  DuBuque  (Iowa)  Herald  : 

"Alabama,  a  State  where  acts  of  Congress  supplied  the 
deficiency  of  radical  votes  and  bayonets,  is  said  to  have 
elected  Ceorge  E.  Spencer  a  Senator.  George  E.  Spencer 
is  a  fine  type  of  the  genus  carpet-bagger.  In  1856  he  came 
to  Iowa  and  made  his  home  at  Newton,  Jasper  county.  In 
1857-8  he  had  the  secretaryship  of  the  Senate.  In  1858 
he  migrated  to  Clay  county,  where  there  was  the  usual 
number  of  offices  and  few  competitors  for  them.  In  1860, 
having  played  Out  in  Clay  county,  he  removed  to  Nebraska, 
and  became  private  secretary  to  Gov.  Sanders.  In  1861 
his  loyal  thirst  for  greenbacks  made  him  sutler  of  the  1st 
Nebraska  regiment.  And  through  the  war  he  became  a 
loyal  bummer,  landing  in  Alabama  when  the  war  closed, 
and  by  the  kindness  of  the  rump  is  now  made  a  United 
States  Senator.  Te  gods !  what  a  statesman  this  ex-sutler 
of  a  Nebraska  regiment  will  be  !"  jaro>^}it> 

They  are  "good  boys,"  and  in  the  United  States  Senate 
will  most  faithfuRy  represent  the  interests  of  Spencer  and 
Warner.  ifAdqaih^ 


j^  CHAPTER  IV. 


On  the  third  or  fourth  day  Mr.  Worthy,  the  solitary  dem- 
ocratic Senator,  took  his  seat,  and  a  new  era  dawned.  The 
vile,  ignorant  persons,  who  during  the  few  past  days  had 


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been  heaping  venomons  slander  upon  the  white  people  of 
Alabama,  were  startled  at  the  bold  stand  which  Mr.  Wor- 
thy took,  and  his  powerful  speeches,  his  bold,  dignified 
manner  caused  the  nefarious  performers  to  tremble  in  their 
seats.  He  also  told  them  that  their  proceedings  had  been 
utterly  unparHamentary,  and  proceeded  to  tell  them  how 
,  the  Alabama  Senate  should  be  conducted.  His  remarks 
V  were  always  gulped  down,  and  his  parliamentary  sugges- 
tions invariably  adopted.  Several  moderate  Republicans 
joined  Mr.  Worthy  in  his  opposition  to  the  cowardly  mea- 
sures of  sly  Coon,  Sibley,  Farden,  Whitney,  and  other  Ohio 
and  Massachusetts  Senators. 

Nothing  was  done  in  the  Senate  on  this  day,  except  the 
introduction  by  Mr.  Mabry  of  a  bill  to  remove  all  political 
disabilities  imposed  upon  the  citizens  of  Alabama.  The 
bill  was  laid  upon  the  table,  and  the  loil  machine  adjourned 
to  take  part  in  a  grand  radical-nigger-carpet-bag  pow-wow 
in  the  hall  of  the  House. 

The  House  opened  with  prayer  by  the  old  negro  Chaplain. 
The  old  fellow  had  his  feelings  hurt  by  Strobach's  resolution 
requiring  him  to  shorten  his  prayers.  He  had  cei^sumed 
about  two  hours  of  precious  time  in  praying  for  all  the  big 
and  little  radicals,  tp  the  great  disgust  of  Strobach  and 
other  radical  faiembers.  They  will  yet  need  his  long  prayers 
to  save  thepi  from  the  home  in  store  for  them. 

The  nigger-radical- carpet-bag-pow- wow  met  in  the  hall 
of  the  House. 

The  fellow  from  Maine,  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee, and  so-called  Congressman  elect  from  Alabama,  in 
a  hifalutin  and  spread-eagle  style,  the  sense  of  which  was 
lost  in  the  incongruity  of  its  sentences,  called  the  radical 
Convention  to  order,  on  whose  motion  Thomas  O.  Glass- 
cock was  appointed  temporary  Chairman. 

Wm.  B.  Figures,  of  Madison  waa  appointed  temporary 
Secretary.  .'v.rtr  -.' 

>   The  desire  to  talk  cropped  out  at  the  start,  and  about 
twenty  minutes  were  consumed  in  motions  for  appointing  a 


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Committee  on  Credentials.  One  was  finally  organized '  of 
one  loil  man  from  each  Congressional  District  and  two  from 
the  State  at  large. 

Just  here  a  motion  was  made  to  admit  some  members 
from  counties  that  had  not  sent  delegates.  A  state  of  chaos 
and  confusion  existed.  All  hands  talking.  Humphries, 
mild  and  complacent,  makes  a  motion ;  Barber,  rampant 
and  snorting,  says  something ;  the  negro  from  Mobile,  Car- 
roway,  grins  and  opposes  something ;  Sheets  gets  mad,  and 
shouts  out  a  few  remarks ;  a  stentorian  voice  from  Mobile 
bellows  out  something  else ;  the  modest  and  gentle  Giraffe, 
in  the  hurly-burly,  utters  a  few  remarks,  when  Glasscock 
jumps  up  and  cries  out  that  hedpcidea  weJcyiihi3Qg.auJi,of 

order.  lo  VfMj.TA    Tl/f  v^rf  frnrin/rfir.   Icf 

Gregory,  mulatto,  from  Mobile,  finally  fixed  up  a  pro- 
gramme for  the  government  of  the  Convention.  Several 
loil  speeches,  in  which  "rebels"  were  gently  treated,  were 
indulged  in  for  an  hour  or  so,  when  the  Convention  adopted 
a  set  of  loil  resolutions,  and  nominated  a  State  electoral 
ticket  headed  by  scallawag  Morse.  They  shook  the  build- 
ing sevf||B^  times  during  the  performances  of  their  fence- 
straddling  Convention,  and  adjourned  in  high  spirits. 

On  "^ie  afternoon  of  this  day  all  the  legal  State  ofl&cers 
were  turned  out,  and  carpet-bag  so-called  officers  took  pos- 
session of  the  Supreme  Court,  the  offices  of ,  Treasurer, 
Secretary  of  State,  Comptroller,  Attorney-General,  &c. 

Hon.  Micah  Taul  protested  against  this  unlawful  pro- 
ceeding as  follows : 

Executive  Department  of  Alabama, 
liw  V.1  0.  OJlce  Secretary  of  State,  -.<'  ■ 

"   '  Montgomery,  Jiilj"16tW'1868u- 

Maj.  Gen.  Meade,  Commanding  "  •^'""^  '^''^    n'-ft^^  vmo' > 

Third  Military  District,  Atlanta,  Gah''^'^ 

Sir  : — I  have  the  honor  to  acknowledge  the  receipt'of 
your  order  of  the  14th  inst,,  removing  me  from  the  office 
of  Secretary  of  State  and^  placing  in  my  stead  Mr.  C.  A. 
Miller,  ajqqii  nA  aiiit'ik>m  ai  Lt>tuiinat*o  siaw  h^iuaun  y  fa9'.vt 


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I  feel  it  to  be  my  duty,  not  only  to  myself,  but  to  the 
people  of  the  State  of  Alabama,  by  whose  representatives 
I  have  been  placed  in  the  position  I  now  occupy,  to  protest 
against  this  unjust,  illegal  and  unwarrantable  proceeding. 
'■^I  was  elected  to  the  office  of  Secretary  of  State,  by  the 
Ijegislature  of  the  State  of  Alabama,  for  the  term  of  two 
years  from  the  date  of  my  installation,  the  20th  of  Febru- 
ary, 1867.  That  body  was  recognized  by  every  Department 
of  the  Government  of  the  United  States  as  a  legal  and 
constitutional  Legislature,  and  authorized  to  do  and  per- 
form all  acts  that  the  Legislature  of  any  other  State  could 
do  and  perform.  It  was  recognized  not  only  by  the  civil, 
but  by  the  military  Departments  of  the  Government  of  the 
United  States.      ^<^  AT  ii  A . .  i  L^ 

It  is  claimed,  however,'  that  I  iriiist  yield  my  office  to  Mr. 
Miller  under  the  reconstruction  acts  of  the  Congress  of  the 
United  States.  The  resonstruction  acts  themselves  provi- 
ded that,  in  the  event  the  Constitution  framed  by  the  Con- 
vention of  November,  1867,  did  not  receive  a  majority  of 
all  the  registered  voters  in  the  State,  that  it  should  not  be 
considered  the  Constitution  of  the  State.  In  your  official 
report  to  Gen.  Grant  you  state  that  the  proposed  Constitu- 
tion failed  to  receive  a  majority  of  all  the  registered  voters, 
and  of  course  was  rejected  under  the  terms  of  the  very 
acts  which,  it  is  claimed,  gave  the  election  its  validity. 

The  Cqnstitution  framed  by  the  Convention  of  Novem- 
ber, 1867,  having  thus  been  fairly  rejected  by  the  people 
of  the  State  of  Alabama,  by  what  right  does  Mr.  Miller 
claim  to  eject  me  from  the  position  I  hold  by  the  suffrages 
of  the  people  of  Alabama,  and  he  be  installed?     I  deny 

his  right,  under  the  law,  in  any  view  in  which  the  question 
maybe  presented»^Hiw  oJ  ,fliiwiifilA  Jrjj-iiMvl  ffur;  ^aiu.tma 

He  may  be  installed  under  the  military  authority'  and  it" 
has  the  power  to  eject  me  and  place  any  other  individual 
in  the  position.       •■^I'^qwil  lo  iiorJoiina  oiii  j^ujvp^  ^ti  bn« 

The  present  Constitution,  under  which  the  civil  "govern- 
ment of  the  State  is  acting,  and  under  which  Mr.  Miller 


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claims  his  title,  declares  "  that  the  military  shall  in  all  cases  ' 
and  at  all  times  be  in  strict  subordination  to  the  civil  pow- 
er." And  I  claim  that  if  Mr.  Miller  is  to  be  placed  in  the 
position  of  Secretary  of  State,  that,  in  conformity  with  the 
Constitution,  under  which  he  claims  to  be  entitled  to  the 
place,  that  he  should  resort  to  the  Civil  Department  of  the 

Governmef^^  tp,Jjav(9,^.qlaiiftia^p4Jpai^6<^-«^     »P*  tp^.the 
Military.  nv,-«.  ,^,.,{  i.c.^l.   ......  .^pf,-/,-  ,-4"  ,rT  1.^^'^    .T'^>^^  rrm 

If  it  is  the  determination  of  the  military  authorities  to 

override  law  and  Constitutions,  there  is  no  recourse  left 

those  who  stand  in  their  way,  but  to  yield  to  a  power  they 

can  not  successfully  resist.  im&^ob 

I  am,  sir,  very  respectfully,  your  ob't  serv't, 

MICAH  TAUL,  Sec.  of  State. 

A  large  number  of  commissions  were  also  issued  on  this 
day  to  scallawags  and  carpet-baggers  as  county  officers. 


•Mft  B  m'- 
..  .,i„,,^,j  CHAPTEEV. 

ii'jiitO'iuov;  III  .iJijjijHXi' 

Sly  Ooon  is,  perhaps,  the  most  loil  man  in  the  world. 
He  came  here  from  Ohio,  leaving  his  family  behind,  and 
has  volunteered  his  services  to  lead  90,000  armed  negroes 
against  the  Democratic  party,  and  to  burn  down  the  city 
of  Selma,  if  a  loil  man  gets  his  finger  cut  during  the  Pres- 
idential campaign.  He  is  very  fond  of  the  military,  and 
offered  the  following  compliment  to  Brig.  Gen.  Shepherd, 
the  soldier  whose  loil  sleep  is  constantly  disturbed  by 
dreams  of  hideous  Ku  Kluxes  : 

"  Whereas,  Brig.  Gen.  O.  L.  Shepherd,  U.  S.  A.,  Com- 
manding Sub-District  Alabama,  to  whom  our  thanks  are 
due  for  the  cordial  manner  in  which  he  has  co-operated 
in  the  exercises  of  inaugurating  the  Governor  of  Alabama, 
and  by  giving  the  sanction  of  his  personal  presence,  at- 
tended by  his  full  staff  of  officers,  to  the  patriotic  ceremo- 
nies of  installing  the  only  loyal  and  legal  Government  Ala^ 


bama  has  had  since  the  yeftr  1861.  And  that  in  the  event 
of  any  change  of  command  incident  to  the  Military  ser- 
vice, he  should  be  called  to  the  other  fields  of  duty  and 
command,  we  should  part  with  him  with  sorrow  and  regret, 
and  regard  his  removal  as  a  great  and  serious  calamity  to 
all  good  citizens. 

"Be  it,  therefore,  resolved,  That  the  people  of  this 
State,  through  their  representatives,  most  cordially  endorse 
the  action  of  Bvt.  Brig.  Gen.  O.  L.  Shepherd,  U.  Sv  A.,  and 
his  Excellency  the  Governor  is  hereby  requested  to  trans- 
mit to  the  said  Bvt.  Brig.  Gen.  Shepherd,  U.  S.  A.,  a  copy 
of  the  foregoing  preamble  and  resolution,  duly  certified,  as 
a  testimonial  of  gratitude." 

Kearly  all  the  Senators  made  a  little  talk,  and  endorsed 
the  resolution  with  patriotic  emotions. 

Mr.  Worthy,  Mr.  Pennington  and  Mr.  Jones  opposed  the 
resolution,  saying  that  they  had  no  thanks  for  a  soldier 
who  would  quit  his  business  to  mix  with  politics. 

The  Governor  sent  in  a  mild,  dignified,  conciliatory  mes- 
sage, asking  the  Legislature  to  treat  the  white  people  with 
mercy,  and  to  remove  all  political  disabilities.  Coon,  Farden, 
Sibley,  Harrington,  Hart,  and  other  adventurers  paid  but 
little  respect  to  the  Governor's  suggestions,  but  commenced 
to  whisper  that  Smith  was  an  Andrew  Johnson  No.  2 — was 
getting  disloyal,  &c.,  and  would  bear  watching. 

The  Governor  recommended  that  they  have  but  Httle  to 
do  with  politics  as  legislators,  but  confine  themselves  to 
such  local  legislation  as  would  inure  to  the  benefit  of  the 
whole  country ;  and  thereby  not  disgrace  the  State  of  Ala- 
bama by  converting  the  Legislature  into  a  radical  work- 
shop. The  people  of  the  State,  knowing  the  illegality  of 
the  concern,  asked  but  few  favors  of  them.  Their  brains 
were  not  fertile  enough  to  grow  original  ideas ;  so  the  whole 
session  was  consumed  in  discussing  the  amount  of  pay  they 
should  receive,  the  "militia  bill,"  "Ku  klux  bill,"  "News-^ 
paper  bill,"  "  Voting  bill,"  "  DisabiHty  biU,"  &c.  The  Dem^ 
ocrats  and  moderate  radicals  origins^t^d  a<&d  carried  through 


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Several  bills  whioh  inay  possibly  be  of  benefit  to  the  peo- 
ple. But  this  kind  of  legislation  did  not  suit  the  extreme 
radicals ;  they  cared  for  no  measure  unless  there  was  a 
vacuum  in  which  to  put  the  words,  "rebel,"  "ku  klux,"  "dis- 
loyal," &G.  When  these  chances  came,  the  "  loil "  fel- 
lows were  in  their  glory,  and  they  always  received  their 
reward  in  smiles  from  the  colored  girls,  and  applause  from 
the  lazy  negro  fellows  in  the  galleries.  These  opportuni- 
ties were  constantly  recurring,  and  the  poor  rebels,  who- 
ever they  are,  did  certainly  get  unmerciful  Tvprdy  floggings 
day  after  day.  ii  r,;.,.:;, 

[  >^flio:oyTOi  odi  )o 

-'  Btii  ffft  v':«'jpV[ 
»iiJ£.{  d*f  r  iioihilctH^n  ->d) 
'I  :tWt  ,n{tmll  .: ' ' 


\     = 


Hon.  ilr.  Carraway  supports  the  Electoral  College  6ill.    "'^^ " '  ' 

eloilir  o£l;t  oa  jeaabi  fiitii^i-ra  wtnyj  o^  rf.>.!iofl©  aliiioiioa 
X'^rf'         '    ^  CHAPTEEYi. 


In  the  House,  Carraway,  the  smiling  yellow  fellow  from 
Mobile,  introduced  his  famous  "Common  Carrier  BiU." 


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Curraway  is  a  kinky-headed  mulatto,  the  hair  refusing  to 
straighten  out,  although  faithful  work  has  been  performed 
upon  it  to  make  it  yield.  He  talks  somehow  so:  "Dis 
thing  is  gwine  to  git  up  a  iuSs  ;  ise  agin  it,  kase  taint  jes- 
tis,"  <fec.,  &c.  He  was  the  bright,  particular  star  of  the 
House,  around  whom  all  the  satellites  revolved.  His  car- 
rier bill  provided  that  railroads,  steamboats,  and  all  other 
public  conveyances  should  furnish  the  same  accommoda- 
tions to  negroes  as  to  white  people,  and  should  not  separate 
the  races  on  the  public  conveyances,  if  the  negro  objected. 
This  bill  was  discussed,  oft'  and  on,  for  three  weeks,  Speaker 
McCraw  being  the  principal  spokesman  of  the  opposition. 
All  the  negro  members,  assisted  by  a  blockhead  named 
Hart,  the  "  long-haired  barbarian"  Harrington,  tall,  gaunt- 
looking  Springfield,  and  other  so-called  v/hite  men  sup- 
ported the  bill.  It  finally  passed  the  House  by  a  vote  of 
45  to  31.  It  was  sent  forthwith  to  the  Senate  for  the  con- 
currence of  that  body.  After  some  support  from  Brom- 
berg,  Sibley,  and  others,  the  famous  "Carrier  bill"  was  laid 
upon  the  table,  and;  there  sleeps  the .  sleep  which  knows  no 
waking. 

The  negroes  were  highly  indignant  at  this  action  of  the 
SenatCj  and  threatened  the  pohtical  destruction  of  all  those 
who  opposed  the  bill.  A  row  in  Mobile  between  the  whites 
and  blacks  was  the  consequence  of  this  nonsensical  legis- 
lation. The  negroes  seized  the  street  cars,  and  were  only 
compelled  by,f(^rce  to  rele^^e,  them»  af^^r  a  fjay  and.,mght's 
possession.  .  W\^.^:,  ;  ^'^^,rn  .'^^7-"^'^^' '  "f.",-  .  \ 

In  the  Senate,  a  wild  looking  old  creature  named  Martin 
introduced  a  bill  to  change  the  county  seat  of  Eussell 
county.  Sibley,  Farden  and  Coon  supported  the  bill  in 
heart-rending  accounts  of  Kuklux  signs  in  Russell.  Sibley 
said  he  had  seen  a  respectable  white  man,  who  represented 
that  the  Kukluxes  would  not  allow  the  scallawag  officers  to 
hold  court  at  the  county  seat,  and  that  the  loil  people  were 
greatly  sujffering  thereby.  Messrs.  Pennington,  Worthy 
and  others  assured  the  Senate  that  it  was  all  moonshine 


and  that  there  was  no  such  an  organization  in  Alabama  as 
the  Kuklux  Klan.  Sibley  insisted  that  there  was ;  that  he 
had  seen  them,  and  knew  that  they  were  dangerous  institu- 
tions. The  discussion  of  tlfis  subject  consumed  an  entire 
day,  and  the  matter  was  finally  referred  to  a  select  commit^ 
tee,  who  reported  that  there  was  no  danger  to  the  Russell 
county  officers,  aa  the  Committee  had  learned  from  reliable 
sources.  oxxusv^  'n'>  ih^tiiH  ^.Qiyiuy/^yr 

J/r-Jooj.'/!'     iy>iiiHii'iL^i<i- ^  ; 

•f.uiijoq'-  'niiJfol.ffi'  >*ttW'jteih  HjiTf  [fiU  ehlT 

[^{i.!  OiU   toil'  ^iqfuitr- 

r>..  ,•:.:•>,. I  ;■  .chapter  viU-'-r  ^ 


The  mighty  Coon  kept  his  mouth  closed  one  entire  toolii'- 
ing,  until  Mr.  Pennington's  bill  to  remove  disabilities  was 
brought  up.  He  then  made  a  speech,  which  Beast  Butler 
would  have  called  a  good  thing — denounced  the  project  to 
Remove  the  political  disabiUties  of  white  men  as  criminal 
and  disloyal ;  he  snorted,  wept,  bewailed,  and  did  a  great 
many  other  affecting  things.  Coon,  Farden  and  Sibley  are 
a  happy  trio,  and  can  conscientiously  boast  of  being  supe* 
rior  to  their  presiding  officer  in  point  of  grammatical  ex- 
cellence, and  of  excelling  the  Beast  himself  in  low  down 
trickery. 

The  disability  business  occupied  a  large  portion  of  the 
time  of  both  hcuses,  and  many  a  look  of  hate  was  ex* 
changed,  many  a  lie  given,  many  a  war  speech  made,  in  the 
dignified  body,  before  the  matter  was  disposed  of.  Mr. 
Pennington,  a  man  who  possesses  some  good  traits,  but 
who  keeps  his  mind  steadily  on  the  fact  that  he  is  working 
for  Pennington,  brought  up  the  subject  by  the  following 
resolution :  ^^'^  old^d'>^): 

"Resolved,  the  House  concurring,  that  a  joint  committee!" 
to  consist  of  three  from  each  house  be  appointed,  to  whom 
shall  be  referred  so  much  of  the  Governor's  message  as 
refers  to  the  removal  of  political  disabilities,  and  that  said 


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comniittee  be  instructed  to  take  tte  matter  into  oonsidera* 
tion,  and  report  at  an  early  day." 

Mr.  Pennington  made  an  impressive  and  generous  speech 
in  support  of  his  resolution.  He  was  committed  to  his 
constituents  to  do  his  best  to  bring  about  peace  in  the 
State,  and  peace  could  not  be  obtained  while  so  large  a 
number  of  the  citizens  of  Alabapia  were  denied  the  right 
of  citizenship.  He  read  that  portion  of  the  Governor'^ 
message,  which  recommended  removal  of  disabihiSes,  and 
supported  it  in  a  very  conciliatory  and  able  manner.      ^r^.j 

Mr.  Coon  moved  to  lay  the  resolution  on  the  table,  and 
remarked  that  he  was  very  sorry  indeed  that  the  resolution 
Was  introduced.  He  did  not  believe  it  to  be  good  policy — ■ 
while  he  was  liberal  in  his  views,  he  was  unwilling  to  turn 
over  the  reins  of  government  to  his  enemies — he  regretted 
the  course  of  Governor  Smith  in  iJiis  ^matter — he  had  con- 
fidence in  the  Governor,  but  could  not  strike  hands  with 
him  for  such  a  purpose  as  relieving  the  disabilities  of  the 
late  rebels.  He  was  in  Washington  when  pohtical  disabili- 
ties were  removed  from  certain  citizens  of  Alabama,  and 
several  persons  were  reheved  who  had  opposed  reconstruc- 
tion, but  he  told  the  Congress  to  remove  their  disabilitios, 
because  Judge  Humphries  said  they  would  support  Grant 
and  the  Republican  party.  He  was  still  in  favor  of  reliev- 
ing the  disabilities  of  all  persons  who  would  support  Grant, 
but  he  could  not  go  in  for  the  relief  of  any  man  who  is  not 
in  favor  of  Grant  for  President,  and  the  perpetuation  of  the 
Kadical  party.  He  hoped  no  action  would  be  taken  at 
present,  as  it  might  result  in  the  death  of  the  Republican 
party.  It  would  turn  loose  20,000  Democrats  with  all  the 
rights  of  Repubhcans,  &c.        iiijvfjii  —ju 

Mr.  Jones  paid  a  beautiful  and  eloqueUt  tribute  to  the 
sons  of  his  native  State — Alabama.  "  He  said  that  so  long 
as  he  had  breath,  he  would  oppose  the  enormous  and  un- 
generous law  which  proposed  to  disfranchise  those  with 
whom  he  had  associated  from  his  youth  up,  and  whom  he 
knew  to  be  honest,  brave  and  loyal.    The  law  is  a  mon- 


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strous  wrong,  and  it  is  his  intention  to  oppose  it  to  the 

bitter  end."  "  J^  ixotfyi  inn.  ,injii 

"V'Mr.  Pennington  said  he  was  opposed  to  keeping  shackles 
o'li  every  man  simply  because  he  might  be  opposed  to  a 
certain  political  party.  He  was  a  Republican  in  principle, 
but  equal  civil  and  political  rights  having  been  accomplished, 
he  would  not  favor  persecution  and  shackling  of'  a  hrarrt), 
magnanimous  people.  !;i  aijsi  ly  io 

Mr.  Coon  insisted  that  the  resolution  be  laid  upon  the 
table.  A  vote  was  taken,  which  resoulted  in  yeas  8,  nays 
21,  asfollows :  •  ■  '     : 

Yeas — Coon,  Johnson,  Lentz,  Martin,  Oliver,  Richards, 
Royal,  Sibley. 

Nays — Bromberg,  Farden,  Foster,  Hays,  Hinds,  Jones, 
King,  Lambert,  Mabry,  Mahan,  McAffee,  Morton,  Penning- 
ton, Sanford,  Sevier,  Stow,  Whitney,  Wise,  Worthy,  Wy- 
man,  Yordy. 

Mr.  Foster  then  offered  the  following  substitute  for  Mr. 
Pennington's  resolution : 

"Resolved,  That  that  portion  of  the  Governor's  message 
referring  to  removal  of  disabilities  be  referred  to  Commit-^ 
tee  on  Grievances  and  Disabilities." 

A  motion  was  made  to  lay  Foster's  substitute  on  the 
table.  Yeas  and  nays  were  called,  and  resulted,  yeas  18, 
nays  11.  The  substitute  was,  therefore,  laid  upon  the 
table. 

Mr.  Pennington's  original  resolution  was  then  adopted. 

The  Committee  reported  in  two  days  afterwards,  and 
then  the  Radical  party  of  the  carpet-bag  Legislature  be- 
gan to  show  signs  of  dissensions  in  the  ranks.  It  would 
b^  impossible  to  give  anything  like  a  synopsis  of  the  fiery 
speeches  made  in  both  houses  on  this  subject.  The  Senate 
passed  the  bill,  after  making  an  unimportant  amendment. 
The  amendment  was  accepted  by  the  House,  and  the  bill 
became  a  law,  after  an  angry,  bitter,  incongruous  strife  of 
two  weeks  length.  The  extreme  Radicals  could  not  con- 
ceal their  chagrin  and  disappointment  at  this  result.     Grif- 


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fin  swore  that  disloyalty  was  cropping  out  in  spots  in  all 
departments  of  the  State,  and  that  if  some  restraint  was 
not  used  the  infernal  rebels  would  soon  make  the  State  too 
hot  for  his  sort.  All  the  balance  of  his  crowd  indulged  in 
similar  remarks.  >tl  ,diiiu'!  ci  (ni>!'>i)  ju^tm  sii  aoitij-jiutuu 
..X"  ■■■  .-  .  .  7.ir.i#  *lru!H '  xfl  lo  -raoffto  j;|aibi88-r<{  -jd)  h%.\) 
\o  i'ii*to(['jiL  HB  loiYBif'jcf  firm^rnptri  -to}  hafnUWnd  )o  Hon  « 
tfji^ooiii  jOiiTT  ,'vmo  >     .7.bod  if'.U)\ini  iodi 

f*'if\^M({qA  oiol^rf  t^nCHAPTER  VlUpdu  uoo^l  bad  ,^avo7_ 
,rfoitflrrtfe»  'irfi  ity>*mtt  (.'  '■)r,r'\-,  ^\\      aRii/dA  oi  v.-^w  *^idi  v/'=>nd 

The  "Legislature"  spent  much  of  its  valuable  time  in 
relieving  loil  people,  men  and  women,  from  the  penalties  of 
bigamy,  horse-stealing,  <fec.  At  least  fifty  such  cases  were 
favorably  acted  upon.  A  white  man  named  Dad  Harris, 
member  of  the  House  ;  a  penitentiary  bird  named  Martin, 
of  the  Senate  ;  the  negro  Senator  Royal,  and  other  "mem- 
bers," all  came  in  for  their  share  of  relief,  under  one  head- 
ing or  another. 

The  learned  Lieut.  Governor  made  three  different  at- 
tempts to  get  rid  of  some  of  the  newspaper  reporters,  whom 
he  considered  as  being  too  disrespectful  in  their  accounts 
of  his  style  of  grammar,  and  his  parhamentary  rulings. 
The  Advertiser  of  Montgomery  was  the  object  of  the 
learned  gentleman's  special  hate,  and  he  frequently  alluded 
to  the  necessity  of  making  newspaper  reporters  subscribe 
to  a  document  promising  good  behavior,  respectful  articles, 
<fec.;  but  the  Senate  each  time  voted  down  the  proposition. 
His  last  attempt  at  muzzling  the  press  was  thus  described 
by  the  Advertiser:  aa  ed  \\vn  it  .tmio-op  pi/;;    •  , 

"On  Saturday  morning  Mr.  A.  d.  Aj)pldgate,  President 
of  the  mixed  assemblage  known  to  the  carpet-baggers, 
scallawags  and  darkies  as  the  'Sinit,'  called  our  Reporter 
in  a  mysterious  manner  to  the  Chair.  Our  Reporter,  who 
is  distinguished  for  his  modesty  and  timidity,  advanced  at 
first  with  alacrity,  imagining  that  Applegate  was  going  to 
offer  to  take  a  friendly  drink  ;  and  then  more  slowly,  fear- 
ing that  Applegate  might  have  it  in  his  mind  to  request 


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him  to  preside,  for  a  few  moments,  while  he  stepped  aside 
to  consult  Hoyle  on  an  intricate  point  of  parliamentary  law. 
But  when  our  Reporter  finally  reached  Applegate,  by  a 
flank  movement  on  his  left,  and  stood  ready  for  any  com- 
munication he  might  desire  to  make,  he  was  astonished 
that  the  presiding  officer  of  the  '  Sinit'  wished  him  to  sign 
a  sort  of  bail-bond  for  his  good  behavior  as  Reporter  of 
that  august  body.  Our  Reporter  of  course,  who,  though 
young,  had  been  about  such  bodies  long  before  Applegate 
knew  the  way  to  Alabama,  declined  to  accept  the  situation, 
and  refused  to  put  his  name  to  any  such  document.  Ap- 
plegate gave  our  Reporter  to  understand  that  he  wanted 
him  to  register  in  order  that  he  might  secure  correct  and 
respectful  reports  of  the  '  Sinit.'  He  ascertained  further, 
that  no  other  Reporter  was  subjected  to  the  same  condi- 
tions, and  was  surprised  at  such  a  demand,  insisting  as  he 
does,  that  his  reports  have  always  been  correct  and  re- 
spectful, except  wherein  they  have  already  been  voluntarily 
corrected. 

"  Now,  our  Reporter  insists  that  he  shalj  not  be  held  re- 
sponsible for  the  editorial  comments  made  in  the  Advertp- 
ser  upon  the  proceedings  and  members  of  the  *  Sinit.' 

"The  editorial  department  and  the  reporter's  department 
of  the  Advertiser  are  entirely  distinct.  The  editors  have  a 
right  to  bring  to  the  pubUc  notice  the  ignorance,  the  coarse- 
ness and  general  unfitness  of  persons  who  have,  under  pe- 
culiar circumstances,  obtruded  themselves  into  the  legisla- 
tive halls  of  the  State.  Should  our  Reporter  be  excluded 
on  this  account,  it  will  be  an  attack  on  the  freedom  of  the 
press,  -end  Mr.  Applegate  and  his  friends  would  be  held  re- 
sponsible by  the  public  for  their  gross  violation  of  the 
principle  lying  at  the  foimdation  of  our  Government.  If 
we  think  proper  to  comment  on  Mr.  Coon's  ridiculous  con- 
duct, while  the  two  houses  are  in  joint  session — or  to  inti- 
mate that  his  wash  bills  are  of  very  slender  dimensions — 
if  we  choose  to  produce  the  genuine  African  dialect  which 
sometimes  enters  into  the  discussion — if  we  should  express 


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astonishment  that  Sibley's  loyal  soul  should  be  so  disturbed 
,by  the  fancied  presence  of  the  Ku  Klux — if  we  think  proper 
to  exhibit  surprise  that  the  learned  President  of  the  'Sinit,' 
himseK,  spells  country  with  a  K,  and  God  with  a  small  g, 
as  it  is  said  he  habitually  does — we  insist  that  the  editor, 
and  not  the  reporter  of  the  Advertiser  is  responsible. 

"  Therefore,  since  the  reporter's  work  has  been  faithfully 
done,  and  the  editor  is  entirely  responsible  for  any  com- 
ments made  about  this  miscellaneous  assemblage,  there  is 
no  reason  for  requiring  him,  and  no  others,  to  register  his 
name,  as  if  to  force  a  confession  that  he  had  been  guilty  of 
some  improper  conduct  as  reporter  to  the  Advertiser.  In 
addition  to  this,  no  Legislature  in  Alabama  evfer  required 
such  a  thing,  and  the  President  of  the  '  Sinit,'  in  making 
the  demand,  goes  beyond  his  rightful  authority." 

He  made  no  further  efforts  on  this  subject,  but  kept  as 
docile  as  a  lamb  towards  the  newspaper  men  during  the 
balance  of  the  session.  He  was  always  supported  in  these 
contemptible  endeavors  by  Coon,  Sibley  &  Co.  r^  ^„,t^  ^.n-v 

Many  members  of  the  House  were  also  in  the  habit  of 
rising  to  "questions  of  privilege,"  and  reading  newspaper 
articles  which  reflected  on  their  private  characters.  They 
generally  got  the  worst  of  the  contest,  and  after  several 
ieneffectual  attempts  to  restrict  the  freedom  of  the  press, 
they  gave  up  the  ghost  in  despair. 

Coon's  bill  to  authorize  the  establishing  of  a  "  loyal  news- 
paper" in  each  Congressional  District,  was  one  of  the  most 
outrageous  of  all  the  outrageous  acts  perpetrated  or  at-  \ 
tempted  to  be  perpetrated  by  this  band  of  imposters.  The 
bill  simply  provides  that  the  Governor  shall  appoint  a  rad- 
ical newspaper  in  each  Congressional  District,  in  which 
newspaper  all  Probate  and  other  Judges,  Sheriffs,  Execu- 
tors, Administrators,  Guardians,  &c.,  shall  have  their  legal 
advertisements  inserted.  The  discussion  of  this  mornBtros- 
ity  occupied  more  than  a  week,  but  the  bill  finally  passed 
over  bitter  opposition.  Suppose  a  bill  like  the  following 
had  been  introduced,  and  a.  debate  like  the  following  had 


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been  had  thereon,  some  idea  could  then  be  formed  of 
the  arguments  which  were  used  in  support  of  this  mighty, 
wrong :')iijj  io  ;>nfji>i^.9i4.  imawMi-*'^^  Jhi'u   t'diq-im -iio'itiz'.^  '<i 

"  Be  it  'enacted  by  the  (len^i^df  AssiSfirt^;f  ofAlabaina, 
That  thr  Governor  be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  to  estab- 
lish a  loyal  grist  and  grain  mill  in  every  Congressional  Dis- 
trict. 

"  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Governor  shall  appoint 
loyal  men,  white  or  black,  to  govern  said  mills.      "^  ^la-jui 

"  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  all  widows  and  orphans  aVe 
required  to  do  their  grinding  at  said  mills,  and  all  loyal 
people  required  to  do  the  same  thing,  but  at  reduced 
prices. 

"Be  it  further  enacted.  That  all  Kukluxes  or  hideous 
looking  people  who  are  caught  lurking  about  the  said  loyal 
mills,  shall  be  punished  with  instant  death." 

Mr.  Sibley  said  that  this  bill  would  stand  upon  its  merits, 
and  he  had  but  a  word  to  say  in  support  of  it.  It  was  evi- 
dent that  the  miUs  which  have  been  furnishing  toeal  for  the 
last  three  years  are  utterly  disloyal,  and  he  beheved  certain 
ingredients  were  placed  in  the  meal  to  change  the  political 
sentiments  of  the  loyal  people. 

Mr.  Coon  hoped  the  bill  would  be  placed  upon  its  third 
reading  and  passage  at  once.  He  had  given  the  subject 
much  serious  thought,  and  had  become  convinced  that  the 
grist  mills  of  the  country  were  furnishing  disloyal  meal, 
and  that  if  the  loyal  people  continued  to  use  it,  it  would  be 
equal  to  twenty  thousand  votes  against  Gen.  Grant.  Like 
all  other  coons,  he  was  raised  on  corn,  and  knew  the  differ- 
ence between  loyal  and  disl»yal  meal.  Besides  this,  it  was 
most  necessary  to  pass  this  bill  to  keep  up  and  strengthen 
the  Eepubhcan  party;  the  Senate  had  passed  the  bill  re- 
quiring widows  and  orphans  to  advertise  in  loyal  papers, 
gnd  he  thought  they  should  be  made  to  snstain  loyal  grist 
mills. 

Mr.  Foster  and  Mr.  Pennington  said  they  hoped  the  Sen- 
ate would  not  act  hastily  in  such  an  important  matter. 


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They  moved  that  the  bill  be  referred  to  a  select  committee 
to  be  called  the  Committee  on  Loyal  Grist  MiUs. 

Mr.  Lambert  said  he  did  not  think  the  'Sinit'  had  any 
jurisdiction  of  such  cases,  and  he  moved  the  bill  be  laid 
upon  the  table. 

Mr.  Farden  said  it  was  the  most  appropriate  bill  that  had 
yet  been  introduced,  except  the  K.  K.  biU. 

Mr.  Bromberg  said  the  bill  was  of  the  utmost  importance, 
and  he  was  delighted  at  the  introduction  of  it.  He  hved 
in  Mobile,  and  had  not  eaten  a  piece  of  loyal  bread,  except 
while  absent,  in  three  years.  The  colored  loyal  people  were 
fast  becoming  Democratic,  by  using  meal  from  the  disloyal 
mills  at  Mobile.  He  wanted  the  bill  to  pass  at  once,  and 
a  special  tax  be  levied  for  the  purpose  of  establishing  a 
loyal  mill  in  each  district.  This  matter  was  of  the  greatest 
importance  to  the  Kepublican  party. 

Mr.  Eichards  said  he  would  gladly  favor  the  bill,  but  he 
thought  it  would  be  difficult  to  make  the  disloyal  people 
support  the  mills. 

Mr.  Sibley  repHed  that  the  loyal  militia  could  be  called 
out  to  force  them  to  purchase  their  meal  at  the  loyal  mills. 

Mr.  Coon  made  a  very  able  speech,  and  said  he  would 
take  a  torch  in  one  hand  and  anything  he  could  get  in  the 
other,  and  would  stand  at  the  head  of  the  brave  mihtia 
uatil  every  disloyal  person  had  purchased  a  bushel  of  loyal 
meal. 

Mr.  Whitney  said  he  had  some  doubts  as  to  the  consti- 
tutionality of  the  bill,  but  was  nevertheless  in  favor  of  it. 

"  Lawyer"  Bailey  was  called  in,  and  gave  as  his  "  legal " 
opinion  that  the  bill  was  in  accordance  with  the  reconstruc- 
tion laws. 

This  was  a  stunner.  ,.  j. 

The  bill  passed  the  Senate  with  but  few  dissenting  y^fA 
ces,  and  was  sent  forthwith  to  the  House.  J 


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'  "'•  Ur\  Qfii  Uiiii  Iry/oui  V'idT 
CHAPTER  IX.tmo'J  ^nli  lr,ll-'>  ridoi 

ViUi   i)r,il    jiuiel*  'Mi)   aiv ■  u  'id  ]ji««  iiaduiHil  :il/ 

-'  1)110 '"Kfibaiiistlfegifelature"  is  certainlya  iice'set  of  id- 
lows.  Besides  their  high  regard  for  loyalty,  they  know 
something  about  attending  to  the  interests  of  No.  1,  They 
debated  a  long  time  whether  they  should  receive  eight,  six, 
or  ten  dollars  per  day  for  their  very  valuable  services.  They 
finally  passed  a  bill  fixing  the  pay  of  niembers  at  $8  per 
day ;  presiding  officers,  $12 ;  principal  clerks,  $8 ;  assist- 
ants, $6  ;  sergeant-at-arms,  $6  ;  door-keepers,  $4 ;  and  pa- 
ges, $4.  The  number  of  officers  is  greatei?  than  was  ever 
required  by  the  laws  of  Alabama.  They  voted  themselves 
40  cents  mileage,  just  double  the  amout  heretofore  asked. 
It  cost  the  State,  the  "disloyal"  people,  the  snug  little  sum 
of  sixty  thousand  dollars  to  settle  with  these  fellows  at  the 
close  o|  the  thirty  days'  session.  Martin,  who  served  out 
a  term  in  the  Geogia  penitentiary,  was  very  anxious  that 
ten  dollars  a  day  should  be  paid  the  members,  and  said 
their  services  were  justly  worth  it.  He  was  doubtless  en- 
deavoring to  "  make  up"  for  dead-head  work  rendered  the 
State  of  Georgia,  while  serving  out  his  time  in  the  peniten- 
tiary. But  Martin  was  not  unlike  the  balance  of  the  scal- 
lawags  and  carpet-baggers  in  this  respect ;  they  all  wanted 
the  pmj — genuine  greenbacks,  or  nothing.  They  refused 
even  to  take  the  State  certificates,  because  they  wouldn't 
"pass"  at  par  in  certain  localities.  The  Treasurer  got  tired 
of  informing  them  that  the  State  certificates  would  at  least 
pay  taxes,  for  the  invariable  response  vas,  "Oh,  d — ^n  the 
taxes,  I  haven't  got  any  to  pay."         •/  iii(<  '^^^  'iii''^'  «o.. 

The  carried  off  with  them  nearly  every  cent  in  the  State 
treasury,  and  left  that  concom  a  fit  subject  for  the  blessings 
of  the  bankrupt  act.  They  tried  to  further  rob  the  trea- 
sury, by  requiring  it  to  pay  the  back  dues  of  the  menagerie 
Convention.  Smiling  Carraway's  speech  in  behalf  of  this 
project  was  one  of  the  ablest  of  the  session.     He  said : 

"  Mr.  Speaker :  Fore  de  vote  is  taken  on  dis  subjec,  I 


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wish  to  say  a  few  words.  Dere  is  no  justness  in  dis  mat- 
ter, less  de  members  of  de  Convention  git  dare  pay.  It  ^ 
well  known  dat  many  members  of  dat  Convention  run  risk 
of  dar  very  lives  in  gitting  here ;  dey  had  to  go  through 
swamps  at  night  to  git  here  ;  dey  deserve  well  of  Alabama 
for  dere  service.  Many  of  dem  quit  dere  businesses  and 
liked  to  starve,  cause  dey  couldn't  git  pay  for  servin  de 
State.  It's  onjust  not  to  pay  'em — dere  is  no  justness 
in  it." 

But,  there  being  only  ten  or  twelve  in  the  Legislature 
who  had  served  in  the  Convention,  the  Legislature  defeated 
the  Carraway  crowd  in  order  to  get  everything  themselves, 
which  they  did  most  effectually.  The  pay  business  en- 
grossed much  of  the  time,  and  all  of  the  Jiidden  thoughts 
of  the  loil  Legislature. 

The  speech  of  Thomas  Lea,  a  distinguished  and  hand- 
some colored  member,  deserves  a  place  in  tho  history  of 
the  country.  The  House  of  Representatives  being  in  com- 
mittee "ob  de  hole,"  Mr.  Lea  arose  and  "suggested"  the 
following  wise  move  :  I.  3;  trtt;]»  ;!  V-^rA  j'iiob  htir.  ,oi  «ioo«n 

"  Mr.  Cheerman — I  moves  dat  five  hufidud  copies  ob  de 
Legislatur  be  printed," — following  up  his  motion  by  the 
subjoined  eloquent  speech  :       fom  ffiiinZ     . 

"  I  hope,  sir,  dat  de  country  will  'cognize  de  reportance 
ob  de  sejestion  I'se  jest  had  de  oner  ob  perpendin.  De 
troof  is,  sir,  I  don't  know  nuffin  bout  dis  bizness,  no  how ; 
I  beam  Mr,  Coon  say  "dis  is  de  way,"  or  "dat  is  de  way," 
an  I  wood  bleeve  Mr.  Coon,  seppen  as  how  he  dident  pay 
his  cullud  gemmen  las  yer  for  de  crap  dey  made  fur  him. 
I  hear  Mas  Appletoddy  say  "  he's  better  dan  we  is,"  but 
den  you  know  he  stole  Mr.  Thomson's  bonds  and  Ian  titles. 
Mr.  Jim  Q.  Smith  say  de  rebbels  is  dam  bad,  but  sevral 
years  ago  I  seed  Mr.  Lockwood  nock  Mr.  Smith  almos  to 
de  middle  ob  nex  week,  and  Mr.  Smith  dun  nuffin  back  to 
him,  but  run  hke  a  puppy.  Mars  Josh  Morse  say  we  mus 
all  be  law-abidin,  but  den  he  sassernated  a  man  in  cole 
blood  not  two  munts  ago.     Mars  Berril  Jpl^nsing  talk  mity 


nice,  too,  but  he  say  'pudiate  wid  scorn  de  'publican  party, 
an  dat  won't  do.  Mars  John  Hardy  say  as  how  Mr.  Ard 
wants  a  seat  here,  but  de  troof  is,  Mars  John  sich  a  liar 
dat  I  can't  bleeve  him  on  oath.  Tell  yer,  gemmen,  dere's 
a  rabbit  in  de  brush  heap  sumwhar.  Dis  nigger  is  'pleetly 
circumfusticated.  He  don't  know  nuffin  bout  dis  bizness, 
an  'sides,  he  feels  sorter  shame  ob  de  cump'ny  he's  'pell  to 
keep.  I  blushes  nee  deep  ebery  time  I  hears  Mars  John 
Hardy  talk  bout  troof,  Mr.  Coon  talk  bout  honesty,  de  Rev.' 
Mr.  Silsby  talk  bout  varture,  or  de  hole  dam  crew  ob  you 
talking  bout  knowing  anything.  De  fack  is,  I  don't  know 
nuffln  bout  dis  bizness  no  how,  but  dere's  a  rabbit  in  de 
brush  heap  sumwhar — sho.  Here's  brudder  Stewed  says 
he  wants  a  law  to  make  Mare  Brown  keep  peace  inside  his 
corporashun  ;  but  dat's  coz  sumbody  skeern  him  into  fits 
dere  one  nite,  arter  he  done  gone  to  bed  wid  a  hedake  what 
he  got  out  ob  a  bottle  or  two  ob  — ars  Wimp  Cole's  whisky. 
Tell  you,  mun,  dere's  a  rabbit  in  de  brush  heap — sumiuliari 
an  I  don't  know  nuffin  bout  dis  bizness  no  how — never 
specks  to,  and  don't  keer  a  durn  if  I  don't  nuther.  Derfor 
I  renuse  my  dissolution,  and  hopes  it  will  fine  a  secun.  I 
want  five  hundud  copies  ob  de  Legislatur  printed,  and  Fse 
hound  to  have  it.  Nuffin  more  at  present,  but  remains  yours 
til  deth,  tom  lee."  [Tremendous  enthusiasm — the  members 
standing  on  the  benches  (to  get  a  breath  of  fresh  air)  and 
shouting,  until  their  throats  grew  ho^arae, .  ".Thi^e©  icheei^ 
for  Tom  Lee."]  .yr.  u  ol^  nn  wooO  .-xM  rn/??»i(  1 

Coon's  Militia  bill  was  the  most  damnable  outrage  a 
carpet-bagger  ever  conceived.  It  consisted  of  thirty-six 
sections,  and  provided  for  arming  nearly  all  the  male  ne- 
groes of  the  State,  under  the  guise  of  a  loyal  movement  to 
keep  down  insurrection,  rebellion,  Kukluxes,  and  aU  the 
other  horrid  things. 

WJien  the  militia  bill  was  introduced.  Coon  found  that 
it  had  but  few  supporters,  and  after  much  persuasion,  the 
mighty  warrior  withdrew  it.  If  it  had  been  introduced  on 
the  first  day  of  the  session,  the  passage  of  it  would  have 


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been  certain.  But  by  this  time  the  conservative  element 
had  reached  the  ascendancy,  and  the  squatter  from  Iowa 
watched  in  silence  the  death  of  his  favorite  project. 

The  Kuklux  brigade  kept  up,  from  day  to  day,  their 
abuse  of  supposed  "  hideous  looking  persons."  They  were 
in  their  glory  when  they  could  bring  against  our  people, 
over  the  shoulders  of  a  few  rowdy  town  boys,  the  charge  of 
disloyalty,  organizing  of  secret  political  companies,  &c. 
One  morning  in  the  Senate,  old  man  Oliver  produced  a 
letter  containing  the  word  "  Kuklux,"  and  telling  of  their 
threats  against  one  Haughey,  a  scallawag  so-called  member 
of  Congress.  Sly  Coon  and  loyal  Sibley  were  fast  asleep 
when  the  Secretary  commenced  reading  the  letter ;  but  when 
he  got  to  the  word  "Kuklux,"  loyal  Sibley  suddenly  jumped 
up,  kicked  over  the  desk,  spilled  the  people's  ink,  and  be- 
smeared the  people's  carpet,  and  -with  his  eyes  distorted 
and  his  hands  uplifted,  cried  out  in  deepest  agony — "oh ! 
Lord,  have  the  Kuklux  come — who's  got  my  hat?" 

Sly  Coon  thought  his  brother  Kukluxer  was  fainting,  and 
made  desperate  stj-ides  to  reach  him ;  he  threw  the  con- 
tents of  ah  ink  bottle  in  his  face,  and  loyal  Sibley  soon 
recovered  sufficiently  to  proceed  with  his  responsible  duties. 
Sly  Coon  then  proceeded  to  show  that  Kukluxes  were  dan- 
gerous institutions,  and  that  the  members  ought  to  be 
hanged.  ,"  They  have  done  a  tremoundous  amount  of  mis- 
chief," said  sly  Coon;  "look  at  my  friend,  the  loyal  gen- 
tleman from  Madison — look  at  him,  see  his  emaciated  ap- 
pearance, and  then  tell  me  if  Kukluxes  ought  to  go  un- 
punished." Everybody  looked,  and  loyal  Sibley  had  com- 
pletely given  up,  "  Now,  sir,  said  sly  Coon,  I  think  these 
proceedings  ought  to  be  published ;  the  Democratic  papers 
ought  to  publish  them,  and  let  the  peopje  see  for  them- 
selves." 

This  ridiculous  talk  was  not  confined  to  the  Senate  ;  the 
House  introduced  at  least  a  dozen  bills  for  the  punishment 
of  what  they  called  Kuklux  Klans.  A  Republican  finally 
offered  a  resolution  that  no  more  Kuklux  bills  should  be 


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••,'■11 


'Coon  aud  Sibley,  during  the  reading  of  Haughey's  "Ku  Klux  letter. 


introduced,  and  that  the  author  of  any  such  bills  should  be 
fined  not  less  than  one  hundred  dollars.  The  resolution 
was  overwhelmingly  defeated,  and  nearly  the  last  thing  the 
-concern  did  was  to  provide  against  Kukluxes. 


-nrx  03  oi  Jii>.M-iO  ,^.i7:  ;1  j   iioai 

-iiio->  L/!.' /U.";^  r        CHAPTER  l:"^^-'-- 


taoii  ttftuijl  t 


;;a 


The  Democratic  party  haying  made  such  fearful  inroads 
into  the  ranks  of  the  Radicals,  even  in  their  "  loil  Legisla- 
ture," they  must  necessarily  devise  some  means  whereby 
the  vote  of  the  State  should  be  cast  for  Grant  and  Colfax, 
without  consulting  the  people.  In  the  Senate,  Bromberg, 
of  Hesse-Casse,  Germany,  introduced  a  bUl  to  allow  the 
present  Legislature  to  cast  the  vote  of  the  State  in  the 


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Presidential  election,  and  to  take  from  tlie  people  the  right 
to  vote  in  said  election.  ^  hsieqy.'ulfr hita  Jlhff.  t,  dj'nr 

Mr.  Pennington  moved  to  pb^tpone  consideration  until 
Monday  or  Tuesday. 

Bromberg  and  Coon  favored  immediate  action  in  the 
matter. 

Messrs.  Worthy,  Pennington,  Jones,  Barr  and  others 
made  short  speeches  in  opposition  to  the  measure. 

Coon,  Bromberg  and  others  insisted  upon  a  vote  being 
taken.  The  vote  was  taken,  and  resulted  yeas  13,  nays  13. 
The  President  cast  the  deciding  vote  in  favor  of  the  mea- 
sure.* 

Those  who  voted  yea  are — Bromberg,  Buckley,  Coon, 
Farden,  McAfee,  King,  Martin,  Morton,  Eoyal,  Sibley, 
Whitney,  Yordy,  Lambert,  Applegate. 

Those  who  voted  nay  are — Barr,  Hayes,  Jones,  Mabry, 
Mahan,  Oliver,  Pennington,  Richards,  Sanford,  Sevier, 
Wise,  Worthy,  Wyman. 

The  bill  provides  that  the  people  shall  not  vote  in  the 
Presidential  election,  but  that  the  present  Legislature  shall, 
on  the  1st  Tuesday  in  November,  cast  the  eight  electoral 
votes  of  Alabama  for  General  Grant. 

The  biU  was  sent  forthwith  to  the  House,  where  a  long 
and  angry  debate  was  had,  in  the  midst  of  which  the  fol- 
lowing dispatch  was  exhibited  by  a  loil  member  named  Jen- 
nings :      i98  tteilt  aev.  nMluboUm;) 
■     ■    ■       '           "Washington,  August  6, 1868. 

"  Hon.  Wi  H.  Smith,  Governor  :  The  Legislature  must, 
by  all  means,  cast  the  electoral  vote  of  Alabama.  The 
effect  North  will  be  good.  ;ui  J  v.iJ  (iiv.j.ij  .al 

"(Signed)        r.^  j.fliwollol  'jiU    WAENER,  ..(J 
himB  oiob  ^fi^iBibrr  datfil  o[>  Ilfi  f^hoa  I    :    SPENCER, 

STOW." 

The  unsophisticated  old  creature,  whom  the  Governor 
had  allowed  to  retain  the  dispatch,  thought  he  would  show 
off  "big,"  and,  consequently,  sent  it  up  to  the  clerk's  desk, 
with  a  mandatory  order  that  it  should  be  read  for  the  in- 


r«0 

formation  of  the  House.  Somebody  tickled  the  old  fellow 
with  a  quill,  and  whispered  that  the  Governor  did  not  want 
the  dispatch  read  in  public,  and  he  must  get  it  back.  He 
begged  and  impleaded  to  get  it  back,  but  Gregory,  Carra- 
way,  Springfield  and  the  other  so-called  people  thought  it 
was  something  about  Kuklux  and  rebels,  and  insisted  that 
the  clerk  must  read  the  dispatch.  Neville,  Reeves,  Hub- 
bard and  the  other  white  men  begged  that  the  dispatch  be 
returned  to  the  indiscreet  old  chap.  This  convinced  the 
creatures  that  it  was  a  Kuklux  concern,  and  they  positively 
refused  to  let  the  dispatch  depart  until  they  knew  the  con- 
tents of  it.  The  old  fellow  agreed  to  let  all  hands  see  the 
,  great  "  What-in-the-mischief-is-it,"  if  they  would  not  insist 
upon  its  being  read  in  public.  His  proposition  was  ac- 
cepted, when  almost  the  entire  body  rose  to  their  feet,  fear, 
hatred,  thunder,  Kuklux,  loyalty,  dirt  and  every  other  brave 
quahty  depicted  on  their  loyal  faces.  They  "  made  for" 
the  old  fellow,  rammed  him  against  the  wall,  knocked  down 
every  desk,  upset  all  the  chairs,  spilled  all  the  ink,  mashed 
the  breath  out  of  several  "  loil "  constituents,  and  raised 
the  wind  generally.  Smiling  Carraway  and  Booby  Hart 
were  the  first  to  snatch  the  paper,  upon  the  contents  of 
which  the  destinies  of  this  disloyal  country  depended. 
The  latter  blockhead  then  mounted  the  Hon.  Tom  Diggs, 
and  read  aloud  in  a  brave,  tremulous  voice,  the  dispatch 
quoted  above.  A  tremendous  shout  was  then  set  up,  which 
brought  in  Coon,  Farden,  Sibley,  Applegate  and  other  K. 
K.  spirits  from  the  Senate,  who  had  been  watching  the 
proceedings  from  the  outside,  and  were  afraid  to  venture 
in.  Smiling  Carraway  then  mounted  beautiful  Shaw's  big 
back,  and  made  the  following  patriotic  speech  : 

"  Mr.  Speker  :  I  node  all  de  time  what  dat  dere  spatch 
kertained,  but  I  wanted  for  to  se  what  de  gemmans  wood 
do,  an  if  it  wood  hav  a  good  confectionery  on  der  centi- 
ments.  Ise  rejoiced  to  no  dat  its  havin  good  eflfeck  on  de 
gemmens,     I  move  de  spatch  be  dopted,  and  1  thousand 


,/^.  U,  .^^c^^' 


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The  Speaker  cried  out,  "Order  !  order!  order!  This  Legislature  is  not 
-B8ur  oili  XX  "  "rcu8."^^j^  iiu  :,0  ^iqe  / 

copys  be  printed  for  de  hotel  kepers  of  dis  city  to  fumisii 
dere  gests  wid."  _ 

The  Speaker  ruled  that  the  gentlemkn  was  Out  of  order. 
Blockhead  Hart  appealed  from  the  Chair's  decision,  and 
the  decision  was  not  sustained.  Soap-eyed  Stewart  moved 
that  the  motion  be  adopted.  Carra way's  motion  was  then 
read  and  adopted,  amidst  a  gigantic  outburst  of  loyalty. 

This  was  an  unparliamentary  way  of  proceeding,  but  is 
almost  a/ac  simile  of  the  proceedings  in  the  so-called  House 
on  the  day  alluded  to.  Incendiary  speeches  were  made  in 
support  of  the  measure  by  the  blockheads,  boobies  and 
negroes.  The  few  Democrats  opposed  the  measure  solidly, 
and  were  assisted  in  their  opposition  by  the  moderate  Rad- 
icals.   It  passed  the  Senate  by  a  majority  of  one  vote. 

Those  who  voted  yea  are — Bromberg,  Buckley,  Coon, 
Farden,  McAfee,  King,  Martin,  Morton,  Royal,  Sibley, 
Whitney,  Yordy,  Lambert,  Applega'te. 


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Those  who  voted  nay  are — Barr,  Hayes,  Jones,  Mabry, 
Mahan,  Oliver,  Pennington,  Bichards,  Sanlord,  Sevier,  Wise, 
Worthy,  Wyman. 

In  the  House  a  long,  rambling  discussion  was  had,  Har- 
rington (white  so-called)  and  Lewis  (buck  negro)  being  the 
leaders  in  support  of  the  project.  The  latter  gentleman 
let  off  the  following  able  speech : 

"  I  speak  boldless  and  fearly  on  dis  matter ;  de  gemman 
from  Monroe  has  spoke  a  good  speech  on  dis  subjec,  but 
he  says  some  things  which  I  do  not  concord.     I  reference 
a  large  people  of  de  masses,  and  I  bleeves  dat  my  stituen- 
cy — de  masses — wants  us  to  vote  for  dem  as  dere  repersen- 
tatives,  an  I  bleeves  we  is  competent  fur  to  vote.     Our  lau 
is  in  a  bad  condishun,  an  de  hands  is  needed  on  de  fields,' 
and,  sir,  de  warm  veins  of  blood  now  cussing  through  sum  _ 
of  our  bodies  will  be  spDt  on  de  ground  if  de  people  is^ 
allowed  to  vote,  cause  dere  will  be  fights  between  the  ex-  : 
tending  parties — derefore,  I  am  in  f avoir  .fi^,^  "^oti^  for  < 
Ginral  Grant  in  the  Legislatur."  i-        ;,:-;.>  ..irfi:- .f>.  -uiT 

But  in  spite  of  all  this,  the  House  voted  do"v\Ta  the  mea- 
sure, the  negroes  as  a  general  thing  fearing  that  their  rad-, 
ical  brethren  had  a  trick  in  view  in  trying  to  deprive  them 
of  the  right  to  Yote.fTJn.  the  evening,  however,  Mr.  Spring- 
field moved  to  reconsider  the  vote  by  which  the  House  had 
defeated  the  bill.     The  motion,  was  adopted  by  52  to  13. 

Messrs.  Stewart  and  Hart,  who  voted  no  in  the  morning, 
said  St,  change  had  come  over  their  dreams,  because  they^ 
beard  their  enemies  say,  after  adjourning,  on  the  steps,  that 
they  had  carried  this  bill,  and  could  carry  any  other  they, 
wanted  to — that  money  had  bought  them  off. 

Messrs.  Hubbard,  Neville,  Moore  and  others  tried  to  de- 
bate, but  cries  of  "  question,"  "  question,"  arose  aU  over, 
the  hall. 

The  bill  passed  by  48  to  18,  as  follows : 

Yeas — Alley,  Ard,  Austin,  Attaway,  Baker,  Brewington, 
Carraway,  Cox,  Daniel,  Draun,  Emmons,  Green,  Gregory,. 
Hardy,  Harrington,  Jiarris,  Hart,  Holman,  Huston,  Inge, 


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Jones  of  Madison,  Kendrick,  Lee,  Lewis,  Lore,  McAfey 
Page,  Quinn,  Ronajne,  Rose,  Shaw,  Speed,  Springfield, 
Simmons,  Smith,  Stewart,  Thompson,  Thweatt,  Tucker, 
Weaver,  Wite,  Wilhams,  Wilson,  Wood. 

Nays — Dereen,  Doster,  Fister,  Hubbard,  Hart,  Jennings, 
Masterson,  Mastin,  Malone,  Moore,  Neville,  Reeves,  Rich- 
ardson, Strobach,  Stubblefield,  Tompkins,  Tyner. 

SpeakerMoCraw,  who  was  sick,  came  to  the  House  after 
the  bill  passed,  and  asked  to  have  his  vote  recorded  NO. 

So  the  bill  passed  both  houses,  and  was  sent  to  the  Gov-  ' 
em  or  for  his  approval.  Instead  of  his  approval,  though, 
he  returned  the  bill  accompanied  by  a  veto  message,  which 
brought  down  upon  his  loyal  head  aU  tha wrath  of  the  dis- 
appointed and  astonished  friends  of  the  outrageous,  cow- 
ardly plot. 

Mr.  Sibley  said  the  Governor  had  violated  his  actions  on 
this  subject ;  that  he  inaugurated  the  measure  and  advised 
its  passage,  and  was  now  vetoing  what  he  himself  had  got- 
ten up. 

BJj  Mr.  Jones  said  that  the  assertion  was  untrue ;  that  the 
Governor  had  favored  no  such  measure. 

Mr.  Coon  rose  to  a  point  of  order,  that  Mr.  Jones  was 
dealing  in  personalities,  &c. 

Mr.  Bromberg  moved  that  the  consideration  of  the  mes- 
sage be  postponed  until  1st  Monday  in  November.  * 

Mr.  Coon  was  in  favor  of  postponing  the  matter  imtil  to- 
morrow. He  was  in  favor  of  passing  the  bill  over  the  veto, 
because  honest  and  loyal  men  were  in  danger  if  the  veto 
was  not  voted  down. 

Mr.  Barr.  said  the  gentleman  from  Mobile  (Bromberg) 
falsified  his  oath  in  the  position  he  had  taken.  He  made  a 
strong  speech  in  support  of  the  veto.ri'^gqKXJ.'i::;  lo  iiinrfut 

Mr.  Coon  strongly  urged  the  defeat  of  the  veto,  and  said 
the  object  of  the  men  who  were  sustaining  the  Governor  in 
this  matter,  was  to  get  up  a  war.  If  the  war  must  come, 
let  it  come.  He  was  ready  for  it,  and  ninety  thousand 
freemen  of  Alabama  would  give  the  opposition  a  belly  full 


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of  war  before  it  was  over  with.  He  would  stand  by  the 
Republican  party  in  Alabama  in  tlie  war,  and  victory  would 
perch  upon  his  banner.  He  knew  the  Bepublican  party 
would  stand  up  manfully,  and  carry  the  war  to  the  hilt,  and 
would  make  the  unrepentant  rebels  sick  of  war  before  the 
work  was  finished.  He  would  not  leave  the  Capitol  until 
the  veto  business  was  finished,  and  he  would  not  leave  the 
State  until  the  war  was  finished  and  rebels  were  crushed. 
He  continued  his  indecent  and  incendiary  talk  until  Mr. 
Worthy  called  him  to  order,  and  stated  that  Mr.  Coon's 
remarks  were  incendiary,  out  of  place,  and  revolutionary. 

The  Chair  decided  that  the  remarks  were  in  order,  and 
permitted  Mr.  Coon  to  proceed,  which  he  did  at  some  length 
in  the  same  style. 

Mr.  Jones  replied  to  Mr.  Coon,  and  told  him  that  his 
remarks  were  revolutionary,  but  that  if  he  wanted  war,  he 
could  have  it,  and  the  war  would  last  until  none  of  his  sort 
desecrated  the  soil  of  Alabama.  He  said  that  he  was  a 
Kepublican,  but  when  war  is  talked  about,  and  Alabamians 
are  to  be  slaughtered,  he  would  be  found  on  the  side  of  his 
own  people — those  in  this  bright  and  sunny,  but  oppressed 
land,  to  whom  this  country  and  the  government  of  it  justly 
belongs. 

He  said  he  could  raise  a  squadron  of  town  boys  and  whip 
out  anj'thing  the  gentleman  from  Iowa  could  bring  against 
him ;  he  could  marshal  twenty  thousand  colored  men  to 
follow  his  banner  in  defense  of  Alabama  and  Alabamians ; 
the  colored  men  of  inteUigence  knew  that  carpet-baggers 
were  not  their  friends,  and  that  a  squatter  would  desert 
them  in  the  hour  of  peril  and  need.  But  if  the  gentleman 
wanted  to  get  up  a  war  of  races,  and  wished  to  poison  the 
minds  of  unsuspecting  negroes,  the  deluded  men  would 
find  that  they  would  be  deluged,  and  that  white  supremacy 
would  assert  itself. 

He  importuned  the  colored  men  to  beware  of  such  teach- 
ings as  Coon  was  instilling  into  their  minds,  for  it  would  re- 
dound to  their  own  destruction..   He  said  he  had  lost  re- 


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spect  for  the  person  to  whom  he  was  replying,  on  account 
of  an  ungallant  talk  he  made  in  the  Governor's  room  in  the 
morning.  He  proceeded  to  relate  Coon's  remark,  when  Mr. 
Farden  called  him  to  order,  and  the  President  forced  him  to 
desist.  He  appealed  from  the  President's  decision;  but 
was  not  allowed  to  repeat  the  remark. 

He  then  stated  that  he  would  publish  in  the  papers  of 
the  State  what  he  had  heard,  and  would  be  responsible  now 
or  any  other  time  for  what  he  said  or  published.  (Mr. 
Jones'  speech  occupied  about  30  minutes  and  was  a  complete 
reply  to  Mr.  Coon.  He  was  frequently  called  to  order  by 
bitter  radicals,  and  the  President  invariably  sustained  the 
caU.) 

Mr.  Worthy  paid  a  compUment  to  the  Governor's  honesty 
of  purpose,  as  much  as  he  bitterly  opposed  the  Governor's 
political  opinion.  After  much  wrangling,  the  Senate  ad- 
journed until  4  p.  m. 

In  the  afternoon,  both  houses  convened  for  the  ostensible 
purpose  of  taking  action  on  the  veto ;  but  the  radicals  saw 
the  death  of  their  loved  measure,  and  managed  to  stave  off 
a  vote,  and  to  adjourn  until  the  first  Monday  in  November, 
without  attempting  to  override  the  veto,  and  without  pass- 
ing a  registry  law,  as  required  by  the  so-called  Constitution 
of  the  State.  They  hoped  by  this  means  to  prevent  an 
election,  either  by  the  people  or  the  Legislature.  But  they 
were  mistaken  in  this  idea,  as  will  be  shown  in  the  next 
chapter.  ,.    ..  i ... 

•  t  iaioqq&  oi  ill. 

tiolioaD'fi)^  o^lnyi.  (iH  ^.'.  \  "  '.  <  iuU,rJ  1',  iwf  ■,  ;.;..,,  .^oiin 
.^•i&oilioj^uijiinr',        CHAPTEE  XI.  »aif)q  oui  oi 

The  Legislature  adjblim^d  in  ^eat  taiste,  without'  eh^en 
notifying  the  Governor  of  the  State  of  their  intention  to 
do  so.  They  broke  up  the  "  loil"  machine  all  in  a  minute, 
and  the  "  loil "  members  were  in  great  glee  at  the  thought 
that  the  "  rebels"  would  be  prevented  from  voting,  because 


the  veto  was  lying  on  the  table,  and  because  no  registry  law 
bad  been  passed.  They  believed  they  had  done  a  very- 
smart  trick,  but  it  can  be  easily  shown  that  they  made  fools 
of  themselves,  and  left  the  Democratic  people,  the  truly 
loyal  people,  masters  of  the  situation.  The  speech  of  Hon. 
Thomas  H.  Watts,  at  Wetumpka,  Ala,,  is  a  clear  dissection 
of  this  subject.     He  said  :    .iOTr  oit  ji;iilt  JFj^^itin  ii{>x(}  t.H 

One  of  the  first  acts  of  this  Legislature  was  to  adopt  the 
Revised  Code  of  Alabama. 

This  Revised  Code,  in  accordance  with  the  act  of  Con-, 
gress  of  1845,  (see  Brightley's  Digest,  page  254,)  provides 
for  holding  an  election  for  Presidential  Electors  on  the  first 
Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  in  November,  1848,  and 
every  four  years  thereafter. 

And  it  is  made  the  duty  of  the  Judge  of  Probate  of  each 
county  of  the  State,  at  least  thirty  days  before  the  election, 
to  appoint  three  Inspectors  for  each  election  precinct  in 
his  county,  and  he  is  required  to  furnish  the  Sheriff  of  his 
county,  within  three  days  thereafter,  a  list  of  these  Inspec- 
tors. 

The  Sheriff  of  each  county  is  the  returning  officer  of  the 
county  for  all  general  elections,  and  it  is  his  duty  to  give 
notice  at  least  thirty  days  before  each  election,  by  publishing 
in  a  newspaper,  if  one  is  published  in  his  county,  and  if 
not,  by  written  notices,  in  at  least  three  pubhc  places  and 
at  the  court  house  door,  of  the  time  of  holding  and  the 
offices  to  be  filled  by  such  election.  It  is  Hkewise  made  the 
duty  of  the  Sheriff  to  appoint  returning  officers  for  each 
precinct  in  the  county,  and  to  appoint  the  Inspectors, 
should  the  Judge  of  Probate  fail  to  do  so,  and  to  give  notice 
to  the  persons  appointed  inspectors  aud  returning  officers, 
at  least  five  days  before  the  election. 

If  the  Judge  of  Probate,  or  the  Sheriff  fail  to  discharge 
his  duties,  in  these  respects,  each  is  guilty  of  a  misdemea- 
nor, and  shall  be  fined,  on  conviction,  at  least  one  hundred 
dollars,  and  as  much  more  as  the  Court  and  jury  may  im- 
pose. 


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If  the  Judge  of  Probate,  or  Sheriff  fail  to  appoint  inspec- 
tors and  returning  officers  :  or  if  when  appointed  they  fail 
to  attend  at  the  time  and  place  of  holding  the  election,  any 
three  house  holders  or  free-holders  at  any  precinct  in  the 
County  may  hold  the  election,  and  appoint  the  returning 
officers.  The  Judge  of  Probate  and  the  Sheriffs  of  the 
several  counties  of  the  State  are  bound  by  this  law.  It  waa 
adopted  as  the  law,  by  a  Legislature  whose  authority  they 
recognize,  and  whose  laws  they  have  sworn  to  obey.  ThiS' 
Bevised  Code  of  Alabama  has  been  made  the  law  of  the 
State,  by  the  carpet-bag  Legislature,  except  so  far  as  it  is 
inconsistent  with  the  Constitution  and  laws  of  the  United 
States,  and  with  the  so-called  Constitution  imder  which 
they  pretended  to  act. 

It  is  not  pretended  by  any  one  that  the  election  law  in 
this  Revised  Code  is  inconsistent  with  the  Constitution  of 
the  United  States,  or  with  any  law  of  Congress,  or  with  this 
carpet-bag  Constitution,  except  alone  that,  by  it,  negroes 
have  as  much  right  to  vote  as  whites. 

Is  registration  a  prerequisite  to  a  right  to  vote  under 
this  Constitution? 

There  can  be  no  doubt  on  this  question  if  we  will  but 
examine.  '/;',fcjo, 

The  right  to  be  voters  is  given  without  quahfication 
Or  restriction  in  express  terms  to  every  male  iperson  who 
has  been  born  in  the  United  States,  [whether  white  or 
black,]  and  to  every  male  person  who  has  been  naturalized, 
who  is  twenty- one  years  old  and  upward;  and  who  has  re- 
sided six  months  in  the  State  and  three  months  in  the 
county  next  preceding  the  election,  unless  he  is  disqualified 
by  some  provision  of  the  Constitution. 
it.Registration  is  only  a  meaiis  to  be  provided  to  prevent 
fraud  in  elections.  It  is  enjoined  on  the  Legislature  by  this 
Constitution  to  provide,  by  law,  for  a  registration  of  the 
qualified  voters  of  the  State.  It  is  no  where  declared  that 
any  are  disqualified  from  voting  who  have  not  been  regis- 
tered, unless  a  registration  law  is  in  existence.    There  can. 


be  no  legal  registration  until  some  law  is.  made  providing 
for  it. 

The  Constitution  does  not  execute  itself.  It  contem- 
plates legislative  action,  in  order  to  establish  the  duty  of 
registering.  The  Constitution  declares  that  "it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  General  Assembly  to  provide  from  time  to 
time  for  the  registration  of  all  the  electors."  In  so  many 
words,  the  duty  of  providing  for  registration  is  imposed 
on  the  General  Assembly.  This  Constitutional  provision 
directs  the  Legislature,  and  is  not  binding  on  the  people, 
until  the  Legislature  makes  the  law.  The  Governer  can 
not,  by  his  proclamation  or  otherwise,  make  registration  a- 
duty  on  the  citizens,  before  voting ;  for  the  Governer  has 
no  Legislative  power  disconnected  with  the  General  Assem- 
bly. He  has,  therefore,  no  means  of  enforcing  a  duty, 
imposed,  by  the  Constitution  on  the  General  Assembly,^ 
and  not  the  people.  The  Constitutional  provision  as  to. 
registration  imposes  no  obligation  on  the  people  of  tha 
State,  until  the  General  Assembly  makes  the  law  of  regis- 
tration. 

The  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  in  the  case  of 
Graves  vs.  Slaughter,  15  Peters,  449,  and  in  Brown  vs. 
U.  S.  8  Cranch,  110,  have  settled  doctrines,  which  maintain 
my  propositions  to  the  fullest  extent. 

In  the  case  of  Graves  vs.  Slaughter,  the  legal  meaning  of  ^ 
a  provision  of  the  Constitution  of  Mississippi  of  1832,  in 
reference  to  the  introduction  of  slaves  into  that  State  for 
sale  or  as  merchandize,  was  discussed  and  decided  by  the 
Coui't  when  Taney  and  Story  adorned  that  Bench.  The 
clause  of  the  Constitution  was  in  this  language :  "  The 
introduction  of  slaves  into  this  State  as  merchandise  or 
for  sale  shall  be  prohibited  from  and  after  the  first  day  of 
May  1833."  The  question  was  whether  this  language, 
without  any  Legislative  action,  per  se,  prohibited  the  iatro-> 
duction  of  slaves  into  Mississippi  after  the  1st  of  May,, 
1833.  No  law  was  passed  by  the  Legislature  of  Mississippi 
to  carry  into  effect  this  provision  of  her  Constitution  until; 


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1837.  In  the  mean  time,  in  1836,  slaves  were  introduced 
as  merchandize  and  were  sold,  and  a  promissory  note  given 
for  their  price  A  suit  on  this  note  was  brought,  and  thus 
the  case  came  bj  appeal  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States.  'V.ls^v'fW! 

The  Court  says  that  the  lah^age  of  this  clause  of  the 
Constitution,  "  obviously  points  to  something  more  to  be 
-done,  and  looks  to  some  future  time."  There  are  no  pen- 
alties or  sanctions  provided  in  the  Constitution  for  its  due 
and  effectual  operation,"  "  Legislative  provision  is  indis- 
pensable to  carry  into  effect  the  object  of  this  prohibition. 
It  requires  the  sanction  of  penalties  to  effect  this  object." 
In  short,  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  hold 
that  the  Constitutional  provision  was  without  effect — was 
not  binding  on  the  people  of  the  State — until  the  Legis- 
lature vitalized  it — gave  it  the  means  of  being  enforced  on 
the  people  of  Mississippi. 

This  decision  applies  with  the  fullest  force  to  the  clause 
of  the  Alabama  Constitution  as  to  registration.  To  pro- 
vide for  registration  is  a  Legisltive  duty,  and  until  the  Leg- 
islature make  the  law  of  registration,  there  is  none  and  can 
be  none  in  the  State. 

Our  own  Supreme  Court,  in  a  case  involving  the  jurisdic- 
tion of  Justices  of  the  Peace,  under  the  Constitutional 
provision  extending  their  jurisdiction  to  amounts  not  ex- 
ceeding $100,  adopts  similar  reasoning  and  arrives  at  the 
conclusion  that  the  Justices  had  not  the  jurisdiction  until 
there  was  Legislative  action,  to  carry  into  effect  the  Consti- 
tution. 

Are  we  required  to  take  the  oath  prescribed  in  the  4th 
Section,  YII  Article  of  this  Constitution,  before  we  can 
legally  vote  ?  I  say,  without  the  fear  of  successful  con- 
tradition,  No !  By  the  very  terms  of  it,  only  those  who 
register,  when  a  registration  law  is  passed  by  the  General 
Assembly,  are  required  to  take  that  oath.  Until  the  Leg- 
islature shall  provide  for  the  registration  of  the  voters  of 
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so 

the  State,  this  oath  can  not  be  required  to  be  taken  by 
any  voter.  The  Governr  has  no  more  right  to  require  this 
oath  to  be  taken,  than  he  has  to  make  a  registi:ation  law, 
by  his  proclamation.  ..Dqqu  .v;"  o:iir>o    ufe' 

All  who  are  not  disqualified  can  vote,  without  registering, 
and  without  taking  the  oath !  Thanks  to  the  Legislature, 
who  granted  unwittingly  to  us  this  right ! 

But  suppose  we  should  think  it  prudent,  out  of  the  abun- 
dance of  caution,  to  take  this  oath  before  we  undertake  to 
vote  in  the  Presidential  election,  can  we  conscientously  take 
it  ?     In  my  opinion  we  can  do  so  with  a  clear  conscience. 

An  oath  is  not  merely  an  obligation  between  man  and 
man  ;  but  God  is  a  party  to  every  oath  we  take. 

In  every  oath  we  solemnly  call  Him  to  witness  our  hearts 
and  the  purity  of  our  intentions.  If  we  take  the  oath  we 
do  so  with  mental  reservations,  we  violate  the  oath  in  the 
oath,  in  the  sight  of  God,  in  the  very  act  of  taking  it.  I 
can  not,  therefore,  advise  you  to  take  this  oath,  with  the 
secret  intention  at  the  time  to  break  or  to  evade  the  force 
of  its  obligation  by  pretexts  however  plausible. 

What  is  the  obligation  legally  and  morally  imposed  on 
us  by  taking  the  oath  prescribed  in  this  section  of  the  Con- 
stitution ?  It  is  simply  that  we  shall,  in  good  faith,  abide 
by  all  its  provisions  so  long  as  this  Constitution  has  any 
binding  force  on  the  people  of  Alabama.  If  it  should  be 
declared  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  to  be 
contrary  to  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States ;  or  if  it 
should  be  declared  to  be  unconstitutional  by  the  Great  > 
Power  in  this  country,  which  makes  and  unmakes  Consti- 
tutions and  Courts — the  people  of  these  United  States — 
the  oath  is  no  longer  binding  on  the  citizen.  Or  if  this 
Constitution  should  be  altered,  or  amended,  or  abolished 
in  the  modes  itself  provides,  the  oath,  as  to  the  part  so 
amended,  altered  or  abolished,  is  no  longer  binding.  Nei- 
ther would  any  man  violate  his  oath  by  taking  such  steps, 
as  this  Constitution  authorizes  to  alter,  amend  or  abolish  it. 

It  is  a  well  estabUshed  principle  .of  construction,  known 


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to  all  courts  and  common  sense  men,  that  every  printed  or 
written  instrument  is  to  be  so  construed  as  to  give  effect  to 
each  part  thereof,  and  so  that  all  its  provisions  shall  har- 
monize. 

The  third  section  of  the  Bill  of  Eights — a  part  of  thia 
Constitution  which  requires  the  oath — declares  "  that  all 
political  power  is  inherent  in  the  people,  and  all  free  gov- 
ernments are  founded  on  their  authority  and  instituted  for 
their  benefit ;  and  that,  therefore,  they  have,  at  all  times, 
an  inherent  right  to  change  their  form  of  government  in 
such  manner  as  they  may  deem  expedient." 

Article  XVI  of  this  Constitution  provides  that  it  may  be 
amended  in  two  ways  :  First,  by  legislative  action  coupled 
with  a  vote  of  the  people ;  and  secondly,  by  calling  a  Con- 
vention of  the  people. 

This  oath  imposes  the  duty  of  supporting  this  Constitu- 
tion. The  clause  of  the  Bill  of  Bights  I  have  read,  as  well 
as  the  16th  article,  is  as  much  part  of  the  Constitution  we 
swear  to  support,  as  any  part  of  the  oath  which  requires 
us  to  "accept  the  civil  and  political  equahty  of  all  men," 
and  that  "we  agree  not  to  attempt  to  deprive  any  person  or 
persons,  on  account  of  race,  color  or  previous  condition, 
of  any  political  or  civil  right,  privilege  or  immunity  enjoyed 
by  any  other  class  of  men."  To  construe  these  latter  clau- 
ses of  the  oath  so  as  to  prevent  a  change  of  the  Constitu- 
tion as  to  any  rights  supposed  to  be  acquired  by  the  ne- 
groes in  the  State,  would  take  away  from  the  people  an 
"  inherent  right" — an  inalienable  right — which  can  not  be 
taken  away  from  any  free  people ;  a  right  "at  all  times"  to 
change  their  form  of  government.  No  construction  which, 
impairs  or  destroys  the  Bill  of  Bights  or  any  part  of  it,  or 
which  impairs  or  restricts  the  right  of  amendment  declared 
in  the  16th  article  can  be  a  sound  one. 

The  legitimate  and  only  proper  construction  of  this  oath 
is,  that  "^o  long  as  this  Constitution  is  binding  on  the  peo- 
ple of  Alabama — so  long  as  it  remains  unchanged  by  the 
people — we  support  it.  We  have  a  right  to  change  it  "at 
all  times,"  in  the  modes  provided  in  it. 

There  is  another  thing  to  be  observed.  We  are  only  for- 
bidden by  this  oath  to  deprive  any  person,  on  accozmt  of 
race,  color  or  previous  condition,  of  political  or  civil  rights. 
Under  this  Constitution  and  under  this  oath,  if  we  choose 
to  deprive  any  man,  white  or  black,  of  civil  or  poHtical 
rights,  on  account  of  other  things  than  race,  color  or  jprevi- 
ous  condition,  we  have  a  perfect  right  to  do  so. 


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• 

Suppose,  on  accaunt  of  his  unfitness  to  exercise  the  right 
of  voting  or  holding  office,  by  reason  of  his  ignorance,  his 
moral  degradation,  or  other  reason  than  race,  color  or  previ- 
ous condition,  we  think  it  would  subserve  the  best  interests 
of  the  State,  to  deprive  some  men  of  the  right  to  vote  or 
to  hold  office,  we  have  a  perfect  right  to  do  so,  under  this 
Constitution  and  this  oath  ;  and  in  doing  so  we  violate  no 
obligation,  legal  or  moral. 

Then  all  of  us  whose  political  disabilities  have  been  re- 
moved, and  all  who  are  not  disqualified  by  some  positive 
provision  of  the  Constitution,  can  and  ought  to  take  this 
oath,  if  it  be  required  by  any  legitimate  authrity.  It  is  our 
duty  to  do  so,  and  to  vote,  because  by  so  doing  we  can  carry 
the  State  of  Alabama  for  Seymour  and  Blair  in  the  next 
election.  It  is  our  duty  to  do  so,  because  by  electing  them 
we  re-establish  the  written  Constitution,  with  all  the  rights 
and  sanctions  to  the  States  and  the  people  of  the  States — 
coequal  States  in  the  Union.  It  is  our  duty  to  do  so,  be- 
cause by  so  doing  we  help  to  re-establish  freedom  of  the 
press — freedom  of  speech — the  right  of  trial  by  jury — and 
all  the  other  great  and  fundamental  rights  embodied  in 
American  Liberty. 


CHAPTER  XII. 


The  "  loil "  concern  is  gone,but  they  will  gather  together 
again  in  a  few  days,  even  on  the  16th  of  September.  The 
well  known  "  Loilman  "  has  correctly  anticipated  the  first 
days'  proceedings  as  foUows : 

SENATE  AND  HOUSE. 

To  provide  maps,  spelling  books,  and  McGuffey's  read- 
ers to  the  newly-elected  county  surveyors — to  prevent  the 
carrying  of  deadly  hostile  weapons,  except  in  carpet-bags, 
were  passed. 

House  Bills — To  declare  Wm.  Bodie,  Mary  E,  McLoon, 
Sophronia  Irving  Riley,  and  Susan  Ann  May,  free  dealers ; 
provided  they  furnish  the  Senate  with  50  dozen  eggs,  and 
a  barrel  of  buttermilk.  —Ordered  to  third  reading. 

Mr.  Nesome,  of  Clay,  asked  an  indefiinite  leave  of  ab- 
sence.   Granted. 


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Mr.  Drawn  introduced  a  bill  to  regulate  the  punishment 
of  female  convicts.  This  bill  turns  over  all  females  con- 
victed of  crime,  to  the  Lieutenant  Governor,  whose  duty  it 
shall  be  to  punish  them  by  walking  the  streets  with  them 
in  daylight. 

Mr.  Harris,  of  Limestone,  thought  the  punishment  too 
severe — he  thought  it  very  barbarous.     The  bill  passed. 

Mr.  McOi-aw,  bill  for  the  removal  of  disabihties  was  or- 
dered to  be  read,  but  the  resolutions  could  not  be  found. 
Both  houses  proceded  to  seai'ch  for  them,  and,  after  four 
hours  fruitless  huut,  a  gentleman  of  the  Senate  oliered  to 
produce  them  for  $300.  They  were  found  far  awap  in  the. 
same  place  occupied  by  Col.  Jacob  Thompson's  papers. 

Mr.  Coon's  bill,  directing  the  Governor  to  send  commis- 
sioners to  Lower  Guinea,  to  examine  the  laws  of  that  coun- 
try, and  to  obtain  copies  of  the  same  for  the  use  of  the 
State,  was  passed.  The  Governor  has  nominated  Lakin, 
Sheets,  h'igures,  Bob  and  Pete  (col'd)  for  that  important 
mission.  Just  as  soon  as  they  get  their  clothes  washed, 
and  Pete  finds  his  steers,  they  are  going  to  start. 

Mr.  Hill's  bill  to  establish  a  poor  house  in  the  county  of 
Bullock,  was  passed  without  a  dissenting  voice.  This  bill 
provides  for  the  support  of  all  members  of  the  Loyal 
Leagues,  at  the  expense  of  the  county. 

Mr.  Carraway's  bill  to  furnish  the  wives  and  daughters 
of  all  colored  leaguers  with  lily  white,  was  amended  to  in- 
clude fine-tooth  combs,  and  passed. 

Mr.  Columbus  Jones  introduced  a  bill  authorizing  Mr. 
Sibley,  of  Madison,  to  take  possession  of  a  certain  cow, 
sold  by  him  in  Huntsville,  while  Mr.  Sibley  was  in  a  tight. 
Referred  to  committee  on  cows  and  bulls. 

Mr.  Chisholm  introduced  a  bill  to  establish  a  free  gro- 
cery in  the  city  of  Florence,  for  the  benefit  of  the  Loyal 
League.  Referred  to  the  committe  on  bar  rooms,  which  is 
the  committee  of  the  whole. 

Mr.  Lentz,  of  Limestone,  introduced  a  bill  to  compel 
loyal  ministers  of  the  gospel  to  pray  for  the  damnation  of 
all  men  outside  the  radical  church.  Referred  to  committee 
on  religion. 

Mr.  Jennings,  of  Lawrence,  introduced  a  bill  to  allow 
members  to  whistle  during  session  hours.  Referred  to  the 
committee  on  music. 

Mr.  Smith's  bill,  giving  the  member  from  Morgan  the 
right  to  stick  his  thumbs  in  the  arm-holes  of  his  vest,  and 


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swagger  about,  was  read  the  third  time  and  passed,  and 
the  member  is  enjoying  his  privilege. 

Mr.  Hinds  introduced  a  bill  which  was  so  artistically 
written,  and  so  grammatically  worded^  and  spdled,  that  no 
one  could  read  it,  not  even  the  Senator  himself,  after  it  had 
dried.  The  bill  passed,  and  will  be  sent  to  China  for  inter- 
pretation. 

Mr.  Oliver,  of  Jefferson,  offered  a  resolution  to  remove 
Dr.  Haughey's  conscience,  so  as  to  enable  him  to  take  the 
test  oath.  Mr.  Farden  thought  the  bill  unnecessary,  since 
Dr.  Haughey  has  no  conscience.  Referred  to  committee 
on  perjury. 

Mr.  Worthy  introduced  a  bill  to  strike«out  section  4339 
of  the  Revised  Code  of  Afabama,  and  insert  in  lieu  thereof 
the  photographs  of  Grant  and  Colfax.     Passed. 

A  bill  authorizing  the  Governor  to  commission  certain 
officers  in  Lowndes  county  to  keep  constantly  drunk,  as  a 
warning  to  young  men,  was  passed. 

A  bill  prohibiting  the  sale  of  spirituous  liquors  within 
two  miles  of  a  certain  hickory  stump,  standing  near  Alfred 
Collins',  was  referred  to  committee  on  intoxication. 

Mr.  Williams  offered  a  resolution  declaring  it  to  be  the 
duty  of  eveiy  member  to  attend  divine  service  at  the  col- 
ored church,  which  was  concurred  in  by  both  houses,  when 
they  adjourned. 


CHAPTER  XIII.— Conclusion. 


The  history  of  Radical  Reconstruction  here  in  the  South 
shows  how  the  deepest  tragedy  may  sometimes  reveal 
glimpses  of  the  humorous  and  grotesque,  as  the  edges  of 
the  darkest  cloud  may  be  occasionally  illumined  by  a  gleam 
of  light.  The  serio-comic  illustrations  we  have  presented 
to  the  public  in  our  little  volume,  founded  on  positive  facts 
and  real  incidents  occurring  in  the  midst  of  the  oppressions 
and  sufferings  to  which  the  people  of  Alabama  have  been 
subjected  since  the  close  of  the  war,  demonstrate  the  fact 
that  extremes  are  inclined  to  meet,  and  that  there  is  often- 
times only  a  faint  line  of  separation  between  the  tragic  and 
the  lidiculous,  the  terrible  and  the  common-place. 

The  people  of  the  United  States  have  some  general  ideas 
upon  this  subject — they  know  that  the  Southern  States, 


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after  four  years  of  heroic  conflict,  succumbed  to  tlie  force 
of  overwhelming  numbers  and  almost  unlimited  resources — 
that  the  Southern  armies  and  people  surrendered  in  perfect 
good  faith,  and  that  they  have  performed  the  conditions  of 
their  capitualion  with  scrupulous  fidelity — that  they  made 
haste  to  abolish  slavery,  and  passed  laws  protecting  negroes 
in  their  civil  rights— that  they  annulled  their  ordinances  of 
secession,  and  yielded,  for  all  practical  purposes,  the  prin- 
ciple of  State  sovereignty — that  they  submitted  with  ready 
cheerfulness  to  onerous  federal  taxation — and  that  they 
have  been  patient,  law- -abiding,  and  anxious  to  assume  their 
old  relations  in  the  Union.  The  armies  of  the  Confederate 
States  threw  down  their  arms  simultaneously  from  one  end 
of  the  coimtry  to  the  other,  without  a  thought  of  further 
resistence.  and  the  scarred  officers  and  soldiers  of  a  hun- 
dred battles  resumed  their  civil  avocations  and  entered  ear- 
nestly and  with  entire  sincerity  on  a*  new  life  of  peace  and 
industry. 

But  while  the  people  of  the  Southern  States  freely  re- 
sumed their  allegiance  to  the  government  and  Constitution 
of  the  Union,  they  refused  to  degrade  themselves  as  base 
instruments  of  the  wicked  radical  politicians.  This  was 
quite  enough  to  inflame  with  rage  and  hatred  the  cruel  and 
tyrannical  hearts  of  the  radical  leaders.  They  resolved  to 
ignore  the  reconstruction  policy  of  the  buried  Lincoln,  and 
to  quarrel  with  President  Johnson  because  he  resolved  to 
carry  out  the  views  of  his  immediate  predecessor.  Thus 
they  conceived  the  idea  of  torturing  a  whole  people,  em- 
bracing millions  of  men,  women  and  children,  with  a  pun- 
ishment more  painful  and  more  hideous  than  was  ever  be- 
fore conceived  by  mortal  mind.  They  resolved  to  punish 
alike  the  guilty  and  the  innocent,  and  to  inflict  on  a  peace- 
ful and  helpless  people  a  political  and  moral  ruin  only  par- 
alleled by  the  physical  desolation  with  which  Hyder  Ali 
wasted  the  Carnatic  when  endeavoring  to  check  the  pro- 
gress of  the  British  conquests  in  India. 

The  radical  Congress,  by  a  series  of  remorseless  decrees 
enforced  by  the  terrible  machinery  ef  a^  military  despotism, 
sought  persistently  and  deliberately  to  substitute  a  "  loyal" 
population  of  negroes,  renegades  and  adventurers,  without 
property,  virtue,  or  intelligence, — but  notoriously  deficient 
in  these — as  the  ruling  political  constituency  in  each  of  the 
Southe^p  States,  in  the  place  of  that  brave  and  intelHgent 
white  population  whose  forefathers  had  bequeathed  to  them 
their  titles  to  the  soil  of  the  State,  and  who  are  by  natural 


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and  legal  right  the  true  source  of  political  authority  in 
these  States.  The  radical  Congress  endeavored  to  accom- 
phsh  this  result,  by  suddenly  enfranchising  every  adult  ne- 
gro in  the  South,  however  ignorant  and  depraved,  and  by 
disfranchising,  at  the  same  time,  tens  of  thousands  of  the 
worthiest  and  most  intellectual  of  the  white  citizens.  The 
reconstruction  acts  were  passed — the  mihtary  satrapies  es- 
tabhshed — the  Congressional  suffrage  was  forced  by  fraud 
and  violence  into  the  States,  and  the  negroes  compelled  to 
exercise  it  at  the  point  of  the  bayonet — the  negro  Conven- 
tions were  convened  by  the  Federal  Generals  in  command 
of  the  mihtary  districts — negroes,  cai-pet-baggers,  scalla- 
wags,  moss-backs,  penitentiary  convicts,  murderers  and 
thieves,  adulterers  and  bigamists,  scoundrels  of  every  shade 
and  degree — white  men  and  negroes,  misceginating  in  the 
same  body — many  ignorant  of  the  letters  of  the  alphabet, 
and  the  large  majority  incapable  of  reading  correctly  a 
page  of  the  plainest  Enghsh — were  gathered  together  by 
the  soldiers  of  the  Southern  Mihtary  Dictator  to  lay  the 
foundations  of  republican  governments  after  the  new  radi- 
cal model. 

While  following  our  business  as  Reporter  for  a  lead- 
ing Democratic  journal  in  this  city,  we  daily  visited  the 
"Convention,"  and  watched  its  curious  proceedings  with  a 
sense  of  amusement  sometimes  overcoming  a  sensation  of 
the  profoundest  disgust.  The  occurrences  we  have  repre- 
sented in  our  little  volume  faithfully  mark  the  era  of  the 
new  radical  dispensation,  as  we  witnessed  its  manifestations 
in  the  legislative  halls  of  the  State. 

We  have  desired  to  give  our  readers  some  faint  concep- 
tion of  the  hideous  imposture  of  Radical  Reconstruction— 
of  the  cowardly  nature  which  delighted  in  subjecting  the 
Southern  people  to  insult,  impoverishment,  and  chains — 
and  of  the  impossibihty  of  any  country  enjoying  either 
peace  or  prosperity,  with  tens  of  thousands  of  formerly 
industrious  laborers  converted  into  idle  pohticians,  and  with 
universal  negro  suffrage,  the  parent  of  vice,  ignorance  and 
pauperism,  weighing  down  the  iutelhgence,  virtue  and  pros- 
perity of  every  Southern  Commonwealth. 

We  have  been  submissive  to  our  fate,  and  exceedingly 
patient  under  the  blows  of  adverse  fortune.  It  is  our  right 
to  laugh  at  our  tyrants,  if  we  can,  and  to  expose  their  ig- 
norance, vulgarities  and  follies.  • 


SHULMAN  &  GOETTER, 

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL  DEALERS  IN 

American  and  Foreign  Dry  Goods, 

BOOTS  &  SHOES, 


No.  5  Court  Square,  Montgomery,  Ala., 


JYew  York  Office:    JVo.  4^  Walker  Street. 


Attention  is  inrited  to  the  foregoiilg  Card,  and  to  the  EXTRAOR 
DINARY  FACILITIES  promised  by  this  house. 

We  have  a  buyer,  resident  iu  New  York,  constantly  in  the  Market. 
We  maintain  business  connections  with  the  leading  Manufacturers  of 
the  United  States. 

We  add  to  these,  an  active  'personal  experience  of  TWENTY  YEARS 
in  the  Trade,  and  we  affirm  that  the  MERCHANT  and  the  CONSUMER 
can  buy  Goods  of  us  on  terms  as  advantageous  as  can  be  offered  by 
any  first  class  house  in  the  South. 

In  addition  to  a  large  Stock  of  DOMESTIC  GOODS,  embracing  all 
the  well  known  brands  in  every  Department,  we  keep  constantly  on 
hand  the  most  extensive  lines  in  J  ■..Ai.m  o,  jj  ; 

Dress  Goods,  Shawls,  Skirts,  Mantles,  Silks,  Flannels,  Ho- 
siery, Blankets,  Notions,  White  and  Lace  Goods, 
Gloves,  Corsets,  Etc.,  Etc., 

e  r»-.  i<  I  ■     M!'>^9no-}i  ft  Jj;iii3liiedT 

to  be  found  in  the  State.    Buyers  are  requested  toeXaffliiie.      •    • 

M^"  Orders  carefully  attended  to."^^ 

•^-  SHULMAN  d  GOETTER. 


JAMES  MARKS  &  CO., 


-AND- 


Commission  Merchants 


WE  beg  leave  to  inform  onr  frieuds  and  the  public  generally  that 
"we  continue  the 

•  WAREHOUSE  AND  GENERAL  COMMISSION  BUSINESS 

in  this  city.  Controlling  ample  Warehouse  Room,  second  to  none  in 
the  city,  for  the  storage  of  COTTON  and  other  MERCHANDISE,  we 
pledge  our  personal  Mtention  to  all  consignments  or  business  entrusted 
to  us.  . 

We  are  prepared  to  furnish  our  "  Patrons"  with 

Plantation    Supplies^ 

BAGGING,  KOPE,  IRON  TIES,  &C., 

and  to  make  CASH  ADVANCES,  when  desired,  either  upon  Cotton 
tor  sale  here  or  shipments  elsewhere. 

Jl®""  Special  attention  iviU  be  given  to  the  sale  of  Cotton  in 
this  Market.-^^^ 

Thanking  a  generous  public  for  past  favors,  we  hope  to  realize  a 
continuance  of  their  patronage  by  constantly  endeavoring  to  merit  it. 

0 

JAMES  MARKS  d  CO., 

Montgomery,  Ala. 


LEHMAN  BROS.,  LEHMAN,  ifeWGASB  k  CO., 

133  Pearl  Street,  New  York,  188  Graviec  St.,  New  Orleans. 


•9 


l.M.Mlm.JE. 


COTTON     ^ITAREIHOigSEI 


-AND- 


G-eneral  Commission  Merchants, 

MONTGOMERY,   ALABAMA. 


WITH  feelings  of  gratitude,  personally,  to  those  who  favored  us 
with  their  patronage  the  past  season,  we  beg  to  remind  them  and  the 
public  generally,  of  the  fact  that  we  are  prepared,  with  facilities  nnstir- 
passed  in  the  Southern  country,  to  do  the  COTTON  STORAGE  AND 
GENERAL  COMMISSION  BUSINESS. 

We  will  advance  BAGGING,  ROPE,  and  IRON  TIES,  as  usual,  to 
those  who  favor  us  with  their  patronage,  and  make 


LIBERAL  CASH  ADVAITCES 


On  Cotton  in  Store,  or  shippad  to  onr  friends  in  Mobile,  New  Orleans, 
New  York,  or  Liverpool. 

We  give  undivided  personal  attention  to  every  branch  of  our  busi- 
ness, and  are  determined  that  none  of  its  details,  however  minute,  shall 
be  neglected. 

Considering  the  many  years'  experience  we  have  had  in  the  STOR- 
AGE AND  SALE  OF  COTTON,  we  flatter  ourselves  that  we  shall  be 
able  during  the  ensuing  season  to  discharge  with  perfect  satisfac 
TiON  all  the  business  that  may  be  entrusted  to  us.  We  earnestly  solicit 
a  liberal  share  of  patronage, 

Lehman,  Durr  &  Co. 

Montgomery,  August,  1?68, 


COTTON  GINS. 


■rT- 


I  HAVE  not  for  years  past  thought  it  advisable  to  trouble  the  pub- 
lic with  any  recommeudation  of  my  COTTON  GINS.  If,  however,  the 
people  believe  the  reports  put  forth  by  Northern  Gin  makers,  they 
would  suppose  uo  Gin  but  their  make  was  fit  to  be  used  by  Planters. 
I  do  not  pretend  to  say  that  my  Gins  are  the  best  iu  the  world — I  leave 
that  for  other  people  to  judge.  I  will,  however,  state  that  I  have  given 
my  attention  to  the  maniifacturing  of  Cotton  Gius  the  past  forty-six 
years ;  during  which  time  I  have  made  about  17,000  Gins.  Before  the 
war  I  made  annually  1,500  Gius,  and  did  not  till  the  demand  Tear  be- 
fore last  I  sold  about  700,  and  did  not  fill  near  all  my  orders.  All  of 
those  Gius  have  been  made  in  the  South,  in  the  vicinity  of  Cotton 
Planters.  I  have  made  it  part  of  my  business  to  visit  Cotton  Planters 
during  the  Ginning  season,  and  make  such  alterations  and  improve- 
ments as  I  found  necessary,  and  do  not  hesitate  to  say  that  my  Gius  are 
equal  to  any  in  use.  I  do  not  consider  them  any  worse  for  being  a 
Southern  made  article.  The  proceeds  of  my  labor  have  been  perma- 
nently invested  in  the  Cotton  States,  and  what  little  I  may  accumulate 
hereafter  I  expect  to  invest  in  the  same  way.  I  have  a  good  supply  of 
Gius  on  hand,  and  can  furnish  at  a  day's  notice  Gins  from  40  to  80  saws. 
I  sell  for  Cash,  or  its  equivalent. 

I  will  here  remark  that  I  am  also  making  what  I  call  the  EUREKA 
GIN,  the  most  complete  and  perfect  Gin  I  ever  saw.  These  are  calcu- 
lated for  large  Planters  who  make  more  Cotton  than  they  can  save  in 
the  usual  way  of  picking.  These  Gins  separate  the  hulls  from  the  cot- 
ton, and  discharge  them  at  each  end  of  the  Cotton  Box  without  being 
cut  by  the  saws,  thereby  enabling  a  hand  to  pick  one-third  more  cotton 
per  day  than  they  can  when  they  pick  it  clear  of  the  hulls.  I  have 
only  sold  these  Gins  to  large  Planters  who  use  steam  or  water  power. 
They  gin  faster  than  a  common  Gin,  but  run  some  heavier.  I  was  not 
able  to  supply  the  demand  for  these  Gins  before  the  war:  since  then  I 
have  made  but  few.  I,  however  keep  them  on  hand.  I  make  none  less 
than  65  saws  up  to  80.  I  have  no  traveling  agent.  All  orders  will  be 
promptly  filled  directed  to  the  undersigned  at  Prattville,  Alabama,  or 
to  the  following  Agents  : 

J.  H.  Anderson  &  Son  and  Hardman  &.  Sparks,  Macon,  Ga. ;  Lawler 
&  Dawson,  Griffin,  Ga. ;  Hall,  Moses  &  Co.,  Columbus,  Ga. ;  II.  C.  Hart, 
Eufaula,  Ala.;  Lehman,  Durr  &  Co.  and  James  Marks  &  Co.,  Mont- 
gomery, Ala. ;  G.  W.  Wilson,  Sehua,  Ala. :  Sjiear  &  Co.,  Mobile,  Ala. ; 
Hale,  Murdock  &  Peters,  Colnmbus,  Miss. ;  McAlister  &  Wheless,  Nash- 
ville, Tenn. ;  G.  W.  Trueheart,  Memphis,  Tenn. ;  Joseph  B.  Wolf  &  Co., 
New  Orleans,  La. ;  W.  Warner,  Galveston,  Texas ;  Heury  Scherffins, 
Houston,  Texas;  H.  P.  Lee,  Montgomery,  Ala. 

DAKIEL  PEATT,  Maker. 


Meyer,  Solomon  &  Co., 

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL  DEALERS  IN 

(UNDER  LEHMAN,  DURB  #•  CO.) 

HAVE  on  hand  at  all  times,  and  at  low  prices,  all  snch  FANCY  and 
DOMESTIC  DRY  GOODS  as  are  to  be  found  in  the  first-class  Dry 
Goods  Stores  in  Southern  cities. 

We  also  keep  on  liaud  a  large  and  select  stock  of 

QROCERIES, 

For  Family  or  Plantation  use,  or  for  Country  Stores 
The  Highest  Market  Prices  paid  for  Cotton. 


mm 


GENERAL  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS, 

AND 

OOTTO]Sr    FA^CTOKS, 
No.  90  Commerce  Street, 

KEEP  constantly  on  hand  a  heavy  stock  of  everything  pertaining  to 
the  GROCERY  LINE,  and  PLANTATION  SUPPLIES. 

Are  Agents  of  "  Shelby  Lime  Co.,"  "  Roe's  Diamond  Hams,"  "  Long- 
worth's  Wines,"  "  Wailey's  Iron  Ties,"  "Cahaba  Coal." 

Are  prepared  to  receive  and  store  COTTON,  in  Close  Storage  Ware- 
house connected  with  our  store. 

Are  prepared  to  make  LIBERAL  ADVANCES  on  Cotton  and  other 
Product  is  stor*.  ■  >■ 


©gglMMlIllMl! 


DEALER  IN  ALL  KINDS  OF 

FURNITURE  &  MATRESSES, 

NO.  36  MARKET  STREET, 

CORNER  PERRY  STREET,  MONTGOMERY,  ALA. 
All  kinds  of  Furniture  repaired  and  made  to  order. 


i.   M.    NEWMAN.  JOHN   W.    HTJGHES. 

NEWMAN  &  HUGHES, 

-  "'.GBNBRAl.   COMMISSIOH 

(Over  Farley,  Smith  &  Co.'s  Bank,) 

MONTGOMERY,  ALA. 

Wholesale  and  Retail  Tobacconists, 

DEALERS  IN 

HaiVTO  aaAJOoraestic  Cigars,  Meerschanm  Pipes,  &c.,  (fee, 
COURT    SQUAKB, 

(Under  Lehman.  Durr  &  Co.'s.)  MONTGOMERY,  ALA. 

^P"  Orders  from  the  Country  or  Country  Stores  promptly  filled,  at 
the  lowest  prices. 

J.  ^.  ao:isrz^LES, 

OF  THE  BEST 

]BAVAHik  ^  OOMBSTJC    CIGARS. 


Orders  from  the  surrounding  country  promptly  filled,  at  low  prices, 
to  Retailers.    Give  him  a  trial.    He  sells  at  Northern  prices, 

TOBACCO,  SNUFF,  PIPES,  PERFUMERY,  AND  BLANK  BOOKS 


WEILL,  MOORE  &C0., 

.r>COURT  STREET, 
Montgomery^  Alabama^ 

KEEP  always  on  hand  a  large  and  select  stock  Of  most  elegant 
Every  conceivable  kind  of 

GROCERIES, 

Either  in  large  or  small  quantities,  for  Plantation  or  Family  use,  or 
for  COUNTRY  STORES,  can  be  obtained  6n  most  liberal  terms. 

^  We  give  the  HIGHEST  MARKET  PRICES  FOR  COTTON,  or 

buy  and  sell  on  coruniissinn. 

Hannon,  Brown  &  Jones, 

COB.  COMMEKCE  &  BIBB  STS., 


mi 
WHOLESALE  &  RETAIL  GROCERS 

AND 

Oommission    IWCerdiants, 

WILL  fill  all  orders  in  their  line,  and  dispose  of  G'  oceries,  Bagging, 
Rope,  Osnaburgs,  Twine,  «fec.,  at  the  very  lowest  prices. 

Having  perfected  arrangements  by  which  we  shall  be  enabled  to 
offer  our  friends  and  the  public  some  inducements  t  ship  us  their  crop 
of  Cotton  for  sale,  we  respectfully  soli ci"  their  patronage.  Our  con- 
nections are  such  that  we  can  offer  the  choice  of  four  Markets,  viz : 

NEW  YORK,  NEW  ORLEANS,  MONTGOMERY  or  SAVANNAH. 

When  shipped  by  our  House  we  are  prepared  to  make  a  LIBERAL 
CASH  ADVANCE,  which  will  enable  our  patrgns  to  hold,  if  they 
choose,  for  a  better  price.  If  this  Market  is  preferred,  we  shall  take 
great  pleasure  in  serving  them  here. 


^^1 


WHOLESALE  GBOCEES, 

.,-  ..„.  AND 

DSALiSRS    m    LIQUORS^ 

No.  96  Commerce  Street,  ' 


WE  are  prepared  to  furnish  Country  Stores  with  all  kinds  of  tJHO- 
CERIES,  LIQUORS,  CIGARS,  BAGGING,  ROPE,  TWINE,  and  all 
other  articles  in  the  Grocery  line,  very  low  for  CASH. 

I^°  Families  supplied  on  the  most  accommodating  terms,  and  at  the 
lowest  market  prices. 

Remember  the  number — 96  Commerce  Street. 

WARREN  &  BURCH, 

88  Commerce  Street, 

ARE  now  receiving  and  offer  very  low  for  CASH — 

BACON— Clear,  Clear  Rib  Sides,  and  Shouldefsr''"*'*^^"^"*'  ^ 

MAGNOLIA  HAMS— (Nery  Choice.) 

FLOUR — Plant's,  Cowles'  Mills,  and  other  well  known  brands. 

LOUISIANA  MOLASSES. 

« 

1500  Boxes  Manufactured  Toftacco.— Many  Chaice  and  well 
known  brands,  with  a  large  assortment  of  cheap  and  desirable 
kinds.  i    »i.    ^ 

WHISKEY— All  kinds,  and  very  cheap.       lati  ail }  .')  *  • 

STGAR,  COFFEE,  STAR  CANDLES,  SOAP,  &Q.,  SlQ. 

^^The  above,  with  many  other  articles  not  mentioned,  we  are  offer- 
ing upon  the  most  reasonable  terms  for  CASH  ONLY,  and  respectfully 
ask  all  to  examing  our  stock  and  proces  before  purchasing  elsewhere. 

^  _^^  WAfiUm  dc  BURCH.  . 


©©BAND  m  0#^i 

WHilili&Lil  All  Klf  &I& 


COMMERCE  STREET, 

I0iIT^,OM;i,liT,  ALABAMA: 


JTtkia 


They  now  oifer  to  the  Trade — 

250  casks  BACON, 
600  bbls.  FHODR— all  grades, 
.     50  hhds.  SUGAR,  " 

100  bbls.  M  'LASSES, 
75    "       WHISKEY, 
1,250  sacks  SALT, 
20,000  yds.  HEAVY  INDIA  BAGGING, 
400  coils  HEMP  ROPE, 
300  bales  IRON  TIES, 
And  a  heavy  stock  of  everything  pertaining  to  their  business.    Try 
thera,  when  you  lay  in  your  supplies. 
Eecollect— LeGRAND  &  CO.,  (Sign  of  the  "Hog,")  Montgomery,  Ala. 

Ware  &  Davis, 

i^^^.  No.  94  Commerce  Street, 

MONTGOMERY,    ALABAMA, 

Wholesale  and  Retail  Dealers  in 

PLANTATION  AND  HOUSE-KEEPIN&  HAEBWAEE, 

..Blacksmiths'  Tools,  Tin  Ware,  Wood  Ware,  Etc. 

Also,  Importers  and  Dealers  in 


GEATES  AND  GRATE  FIXTUEES— A  full  supply. 

KEROSENE  OIL,  LAMPS,  &C.— We  keep  none  but  the  best  Oil,  and 
test  all  we  ^i^ll. 

.;    7i*mu.  WAEE  &  DAVIg. 


The  Veteran  Democratic  Newspaper 


" 


W.  W.  SCREWS, 

Editoks. 

ROBERT  TYLER,) 

B.  H.  SCREWS — Local  Editoe  and  Reporter. 


DAILY — One  copy  one  month $  1  00 

"     three  months ...'...,. 2  50 

"     six  months 5  00 

' '     twelve  mouths 10  00 

WEEKLY— One  copy  three  months 1  50 

"     sixmonths 2  00 

"     twelvemonths  3  50 

Six  copies  twelve  months  sent  to  one  postofflce  address 20  00 

Ten  copies  twelve  months  sent  to  one  postoffice  address 30  00 

j^p"  Clubs  received  for  six  months  at  the  above  rates. 

Drugs,  Medicines  and  Chemicals ! 

ON  HAND 


Of  Pure  Drugs  and  Medicines,  Paints,  Oils  and  Dye-Stuffs,  Window 

Glass  and  Putty,  Foreign  and  American  Perfumeries^ 

Toilet  Soaps,  and  Fancy  Goods. 

All  the  Popular  Patent  Medicines,  and  everything  usually  found  in 

a  FIST-CLA6S  DKUG  HOUSE,  which  we  will  sell  at  the  very  lowept 


prices. 


BLOUNT,  DINGLEY  &  WEATHERLY, 
Sign  of  Negro  &  Mortar.  Montgomery,  Ala. 


t^  GALLIGHAl^'S    PILLS. 

It  you  wish  a  purely  vegetable  preparation  for  CHILLS  AND 
FEVER — oue  which  will  completely  eradicate  the  malarial  poison 
from  the  system,  without  the  aid  of  Calomel,  and  one  which  will  give 
tone  and  vigor  to  the  constitution,  use  Gallighan's  Pills.  They  are 
perfectly  reliable,  and  are  used  and  recommended  by  the  best  men  of 
the  country.     Sold  by  Druggists  everywhere, 

B.  F.  BLOUNT  &  CO.,  Proprietors, 

Montgomery,  Ala. 


WHOLESALE   AND  RETAIL 


m 

DEALER    IN 

MUSIC,   PIANOS,   MELODEONS,  &0., 

SIGN  OF  THE 

TKAGHERS'  KXCHAN^GS^ 

COR.  MARKET  aND  PERRY  STREETS, 

IWContg'oixiery,  ^A^labama. 

HAS  just  received  irom  Boston,  New  York  and  Philadelphia,  a  very 
large  assortment,  of  BOOKS  AND  STATIONERY,  consisting  of  School, 
L :»w,  Medical,  Theological  and  Miscellaneous  Books  of  the  latest  and 
best  Editions. 

STATIONERY. — Cap,  Letter,  Note,  Printing,  Drawing  and  Record 
Paper,  of  the  very  best  quality,  American,  French  and  English. 

BLANK  BOOKS — Medium,  Demi  and  Cajj  sizes,  Russia  ends  and 
bands  :  comprising  Ledgers,  JourUals,  Day,  Cash  and  Record  Books. 
Meuioijindums,  of  all  sizes. 

MUSIC. — Always  ou  hand  the  latest  and  most  fashionable  Musio. 
Songs,  Marches,  Waltzes,  &c.  Instruction  Books  for  Pianos,  Melode- 
ons,  &c. 

MUSICAL  INSTRUMENTS— Pianos,  Organs,  Melodeons,  Guitars, 
Violins,  ann  other  Musical  Instruments,  from  the  most  celebrated  man- 
ufacturers, pronounced  by  great  artists  superior  to  all  others. 


No.  2  1-2  Perry  Street, 


DEALERS  IN 


Books,  Stationery,  Music, 


-AND- 


The  lyevir  and  Popular  Paper! 

(  Established  August,    1868.  ) 

"DAILY  PICAYUNE." 

PubU§;^d  ip  M_Qntgomery,  Alab§.m^.^^ 

rj —        ^     

THOS.  G.  JONES,  H.  T.  WALKER,  Editors. 


THIS  HIGHLY  POPULAR  Journal  is  devoted  to  the  Agricultural 
and  Domestic  Pursuits  ot  the  South,  a  warm  adv^ocate  of  the  Indus- 
trial Resources  of  the  country,  and  strictly  Independent  in  the  politi- 
cal matters  beariiifj  upon  the  welfare  of  the  South,  and  the  whole 
country.     Daily,  $h  per  annum,  or  75  cents  per  month. 

ADVERTISEMENTS  will  be  inserted  at  reduced  rates.  Yearly 
contracts,  or  any  and  all  advertising,  inserted  Cheaper  than  any  pa- 
per in  the  South. 

^W  The  PICAYUNE  is  published  by  an  Association  of  practical 
printers,  who  are  competent  to  make  it  rank  with  the  leading  journals 
of  the  country.  Send  and  get  a  copy,  at  the  Low  Price  ot  75  cents 
per  month.     Address 

GEO.  J.  JOHNSTOX.  Business  Manager. 


GROCERS, 

AND  COmSMISSION  MERCHANTS, 

COR,  COMMERCE  &  BIBB  STREETS. 


WE  keep  constantly  supplied  with  such  articles  as  the  following : 
FLOUR,  (all  grades,)  in  lArrels  and  sacks, 
LOUISIANA  MOLASSES,  SYRUP,  SUGAR, 
Magnolia  and  Henry  Ames  Sc  Co.'s  SUGAR  CURED  HAMS, 
Choice  SHOULDERS,  LARD  and  GOSHEN  BUTTER, 

BREAKFAST  BACON,  CLEAR  SIDES,  ..  ,,. 

TOBACCO,  all  grades,  D  "^jl  A  ^  ^"i 

"Greeu  Leaf"  and  "  Todd  Mills"  ROPE,  ,      -  f  ,  ^      ^ 

and  Kentucky  BAGGING, 
Whaley's  IRON  TIES,  Tennessee  CORN,  Virginia  SALT, 
WHISKY,  all  grades,  MACKEREL,  SALMON,  &c. 

EST  HIGMJSST  MARKET  PRICE  FAJD  FOB  GOTTON. 


J.  &  B.  Trimble, 

No.  104  Commrce  Street, 

MONTGOMERY,  ^  ALABAMA, 


KEEP  ON  HAND 


OUR  arrangeiKents  are  such  that  we  are  constantly  receiving  NEW 
AND  DESIRABLE  GOODS,  which  we  offer  to  our  friends  at  the 

LOWEST  MAEKET  PSICES. 

We  invite  all  to  try  us.    If  we  don't  treat  you  well,  come  again,  and 
FULL  RESTITUTION  WILL  BE  MADE. 


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NO.  7  COURT  SQUARE, 

(Opposite  Artesian  Basin,) 

is^03srTa-o:M:EE,-ir,  j^TuA.. 

DEALERS  IN 


ill    Wii 


Ha.ts,  JBoots  a^nd.  Shoes. 


OXJR.    custom:    DEFARTIMEIVT 

Is  always  supplied  with  the  best  Cloths,  Cassimeres,  Vestiugs,  »&c.,  &c., 
and  made  up  in  the  latest  styles  at  short  notice. 


THOMAS.    H.   WATTS.  DANIEL  S.   TAoti 

(Successors  to  Watts,  Judge,  Jackson  &  Troy,) 

ATTOENEYS  AND  COUNSELLOES  AT  LAW, 

MONTGOMERY,  ALABAMA. 

A.  J.  WALKEB.  V.    S.   MURPHY.  JOHN   G.   WINTEB. 

WALKER.  MURPHY  &.  WINTER, 
ATTOBNEYS  AND  COUNSELLORS  AT  LAW, 

MONTGOMERY.  ALABAMA. 

J.  T.  HOLTZOLAW, 

ATTORNEY  AT  LAW  &  SOLICITOR  IN  CHANCERY, 
Office  on  Perry  Street, 

MONTGOMERY,  ALA. 


ffPTua«Lfiwnyi»^f^gi>fflBimii 


tTNO.   A.   ELMORE.  WM.   A.    GUNTEB. 

ELMORE  &  GUITER, 

ATTORNEYS  &  COUNSELLORS  AT  LAW, 

MONTGOMERY,  ALABAMA. 

ATTORNEY  AND  COUNSELLOR  AT   LAW, 

OFFICE  ON  COURT  SQUABE, 

MONTGOMERY,  ALA. 

H.  KENNEWOETH, 

Li,  Fire,  Marine,  anfl  Maiifl  Naviplioii  Iismace 

Effected  in  First-Class  Companies. 

OFFICE — Opposite  the  Exchange  Hotel,  next  door  to  Morris'  Bank. 


JOHN    EGGER, 


DEALEE   IN 


9 

NO.  30  MARKET  STREET,  MONTGOMERY,  ALA. 


Watches  and  Jewelry  of  all  kinds  most  carefully  Repaired,  and  "War- 
ranted.    Old  Gold  and  Silver  bought  at  the  highest  market  pride. 


STOELKER  &  KENNEDY, 

(  At  HowjVed's  Drug  Stoke,  ) 
No.  29  MARKET  STREET,  MONTGOMERY,  ALA. 


Chronometers,  Duplexes,  and  Watches  of  the  finest  description  Re- 
paired and  Warranted.  Diamond  Settings,  Medallions,  Cane  Mounting, 
and  all  other  Jewelry  made  to  order. 

B.     ]VI.     LETV^Y, 

MONTGOMERY,  ALABAMA. 

DEALER   IN 

WATCHES,  CLOCKS,  JEWELY,  AND  SPECTACLES. 


Repairing  done  with  Neatness  and  Dispatch. 
MUSICAL  INSTRUMENTS,  VIOLIN  AND  GUITAR  STRINGS, 

On  hand  at  all  times. 

JOHN  B.  GUTTMANN, 

DEALER   IN 

Gold  &  Silver  Watches,  Silver  &  Plated  Ware,  Jewelry,  (fee. 

NO.  44  m:a.kk:kt  street,  r 

(  Haeeis  &  Hoyt's  Old  Stand.  ) 

MONTGOMERY,  ALA. 


(  LATE  MADISON  HOUSE,  ) 

3I0NTG031FBY,  ALABA3IA. 

Select  Rooms  and  Diuing  Saloons  for  Ladles,  Families,  Public  and 
Private  Partie§j^B  J-  PIZZALA,  Proprietor. 


•-^ 


MONTGOMERY    HALL. 

THIS  OLD  AND  POPULAR  HOTEL  is  in  complete  repair,  and  is 
prepared  to  accommodate  the  Traveliug  Public  in  the  good  old  style  of 
other  daj's.  The  Table  is  supplied  with  the  best  the  market  affords, 
Servants  attentive,  and  Charges  Lovr.  A.  E.  FULLEB,  Agent. 

(  UNDER  EXCHANGE  HOTEL,  ) 

FINEST  WINES,  BBANDIES,  LIQUOBS,  CIGABS. 

MEKCHANT'S  CLUB. 
BAR  AHO  BXI..I^XARO  SABOOM. 


D.  H.   WELLS Proprietor. 


UP  STAIRS,  OVER  99  COMMERCE  STREET. 


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NO.  4  COUBT  SQUABE.     '^ 


The  Eest  Llpors,  Wines,  Lager  Beer,  Cips  aiJ  Tolacco". 


li  ^rY^«^ 


IffO.  32  MARKET   STREET^ 


19 


THEATRE    BUILDING. 

DIAZ  &  GILLETT,  Proprietors. 


THE  LIBRARY  OF  THE 

UNIVERSITY  OF 

NORTH  CAROLINA 


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